Digital StateAccounts of the early events of the computing industrythe Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computerare well told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle historywith deep roots in Minnesota. From the end of World War II through the 1970s, Minnesota was home to the first computing centered industrial district in the world.