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Computer: A History of the Information Machine
2013, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
0813345901 9780813345901
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Computer: A History of the Information Machine
July 30, 2004, Westview Press
Paperback
in English
- 2 edition
0813342643 9780813342641
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Book Details
First Sentence
"The word computer is a misleading name for the ubiquitous machine that sits on our desks."
Table of Contents
Acknowldgements.
ix
Introduction to the Second Edition.
xi
Introduction to the First Edition.
xiii
Part One - Before the computer
1 When Computers Were People.
3
2 The Mechanical Office.
23
3 Babbage's Dream Comes True.
45
Part Two - 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 Three - Innovation and Expansion
7 Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind.
141
8 Software.
163
9 New Modes of Computing.
185
Part Four - 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.
281
Bibliography.
301
Index.
315
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