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This book traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential.
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Table of Contents
Acknowldgements. ix
Introduction. 1
Part One - Before the computer.
1 When Computers Were People. 9
2 The Mechanical Office. 29
3 Babbage's Dream Comes True. 53
Part Two - Creating the Computer.
4 Inventing the Computer. 79
5 The Computer Becomes a Business Machine. 105
6 The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM. 131
Part Three - Innovation and Expansion.
7 Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind. 157
8 Software. 181
9 New Modes of Computing. 207
Part Four - Getting Personal.
10 The Shaping of the Personal Computer. 233
11 The Shift to Software. 259
12 From the World Brain to the World Wide Web. 283
Notes. 301
Bibliography. 321
Index. 334
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