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Computer : a history of the information machine / Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell-Kelly, Martin.
- Series:
- Sloan technology series
- The Sloan technology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computers--History.
- Computers.
- History.
- Electronic data processing--History.
- Electronic data processing.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 325 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Before the Computer
- 1 When Computers Were People 3
- 2 The Mechanical Office 23
- 3 Babbage's Dream Comes True 45
- Part 2 Creating the Computer
- 4 Inventing the Computer 69
- 5 The Computer Becomes a Business Machine 93
- 6 The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM 117
- Part 3 Innovation and Expansion
- 7 Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind 141
- 8 Software 163
- 9 New Modes of Computing 185
- Part 4 Getting Personal
- 10 The Shaping of the Personal Computer 207
- 11 Broadening the Appeal 231
- 12 From the World Brain to the World Wide Web 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813342643
- 0813342651
- OCLC:
- 54775329
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