| Description |
xviii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
The Sloan technology series |
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Sloan technology series.
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| Contents |
1. When computers were people -- 2. The mechanical office -- 3. Babbage's dream comes true -- 4. Inventing the computer -- 5. The computer becomes a business machine -- 6. The maturing of the mainframe : the rise and fall of IBM -- 7. Real time : reaping the whirlwind -- 8. Software -- 9. New modes of computing -- 10. The shaping of the personal computer -- 11. Broadening the appeal -- 12. From the world brain to the World Wide Web |
| 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 potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the giant ENIAC, the first fully electronic computer. Later, the PC enabled modes of computing that liberated people from room-sized, mainframe computers. This second edition now extends beyond the development of Microsoft Windows and the Internet, to include open source operating systems like Linux, and the rise and fall and potential rise of the dot.com industries."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index |
| Subject |
Computers -- History.
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Electronic data processing -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Ebook
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| Author |
Aspray, William.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| LC no. |
2004006325 |
| ISBN |
0813342643 paperback |
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