Computer : a history of the information machine / Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray.
Computer : a history of the information machine / Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray.
Computer : a history of the information machine / Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, c1996.
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T0367332
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
ix, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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...
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, c1996.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1996.
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Summary
Most interesting is the story of how the computer began to reshape broad segments of our society when the PC, or personal computer, enabled new modes of computing that liberated people from dependence on room-sized, enormously expensive mainframe computers. Oddly, the established computer companies initially missed the potential of the PC and ignor...
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Computer : a history of the information machine / Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray.
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Notes
General note
The Sloan technology series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-333) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF/N004.09/2.
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Date Copyright
c1996.
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T0367332
Record Identifier
74Vv2KQN4yxb
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ISBN
0465029906 (pbk.)
9780465029891
0465029892
9780465029907 (pbk.)
DDC
004.09
MMS ID
991003931819702626
