Before the computer : IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the industry they created, 1865-1956 / James W. Cortada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cortada, James W.

Contributor:

S. M. Peck and Company Wharton School Library Fund.

Series:

Princeton studies in business and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Office equipment and supplies industry--United States--History.

Office equipment and supplies industry.

Electronic office machine industry--United States--History.

Electronic office machine industry.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxii, 350 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. James Cortada describes how many of the practices of the "office appliance industry" evolved into those of the computer world. This book challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary technology -- by establishing its evolutionary links to the past.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-336) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the S. M. Peck and Company Wharton School Library Fund.

ISBN:

0691050457

OCLC:

47295020