Early History of Software Engineering -- Robert L. Glass
Course notes based on the book "In the Beginning: Recollections of Software Pioneers"
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kena/classes/5828/s99/comments/srinivasan/01-29-1999.html
History of Software Measurement
Extensive history of software measurement, by Horst Zuse.
http://irb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuse/metrics/3-hist.html