Tom Mullaney is professor of history and of East Asian languages at Stanford, and he has one of the most awesomely nerdy areas of interest and research that I've seen in a long time: Chinese typewriters and early Chinese computers (not necessarily electronic)
Thomas Mullaney | Department of History
We'll talk about the recent discovery of this incredible device: MingKwai prototype, the ‘origin of Chinese computing,’ finds a home at Stanford | Stanford Report
Tom's book on this subject: The Chinese Typewriter