Small Business Computers Made in Europe (1960s-1980s) : Between Booking Machines and the PC.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franke, Christian.

Contributor:

Röhr, Matthias.

Series:

Institut Für Europäische Regionalforschungen * Institute for European Regional Research Series

Institut Für Europäische Regionalforschungen * Institute for European Regional Research Series ; v.37

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Small Business Computers made in Europe

Place of Publication:

Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2024.

Contents:

Cover

Introduction

Bibliography

An overview on Small Business Computer made in Europe

A short and long history of medium data technology

1. Introduction

2. Historical background

3. From office machines to computers: the advent of medium data technology

4. The end of the niche - The 1970s

5. Break-up in the 1980s

6. Conclusion

7. Bibliography

A new approach to a European information technology policy: the European strategic programme for research and development in information technology (Esprit)

2. Unidata: A turning point in the EC's IT policy

3. A new approach to a common IT policy

a) Considering a new approach: the Commission's IT task force

b) Esprit I

c) Esprit II

4. Conclusion

5. Bibliography

Individual Companies and Developments

Nixdorf - pioneer of decentralized data processing

2. Starting with the Nixdorf 820

3. The next generation: magnetic disk storage

4. From a niche to mass markets

5. Nixdorf's response to the new challenges

6. An abrupt end

Innovations from the Black Forest: Kienzle and medium data technology

2. Roots and beginnings

3. Entering the business machine industry

4. On the way to the first Kienzle computer

5. Close cooperation with Nixdorf

6. In the boom and crisis years of medium data technology

7. The end of the Kienzle computer business

8. Bibliography

Hope and crisis: Hohner as a producer of small business computers

2. Origins of Hohner

3. A producer of medium data technology

4. Conclusion and end

Eiserfeld: European production and development centre for European data technology

2. Production site characteristics at Eiserfeld, South Westphalia.

3. Eiserfeld - a production site in transition

a) The beginnings of production in Eiserfeld

b) External expertise and the entry into data processing

c) Specialization and extension

d) Joint ventures and international cooperation as answers to the American challenge

e) Specialization and expansion within the Philips group

f) Competition with the PC and networking of devices

In-House Computing? (De-)Centralizing data services in Germany, c. 1970

1. Computers in the Federal Republic of Germany around 1970

2. Scaling Data Services: Governmental Policies and Corporate Interests in Digital Networks and Centralized Hardware Solutions

3. Centralize or Decentralize Computing? The 1970s as a Digital Transition Period

Annex

List of authors.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783748920250

3748920253

OCLC:

1439595299