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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.
- Sloan technology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computers--History.
- Computers.
- Electronic data processing--History.
- Electronic data processing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing""
- Contents:
- Part One: BEFORE THE COMPUTER
- 1. When Computers Were People
- 2. The Mechanical Office
- 3. Babbage's Dream Comes True
- Part Two: CREATING THE COMPUTER
- 4. Inventing the Computer
- 5. The Computer Becomes a Business Machine
- 6. The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM
- Part Three: INNOVATION AND EXPANSION
- 7. Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind
- 8. Software
- 9. New Modes of Computing
- Part Four: GETTING PERSONAL
- 10. The Shaping of the Personal Computer
- 11. Broadening the Appeal
- 12. From the World Brain to the World Wide Web
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613787415
- 9780813342658
- 0813342651
- 9781281606709
- 1281606707
- 9780786729913
- 0786729910
- OCLC:
- 767502299
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb01132 hdl
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