Engines of the mind : the evolution of the computer from mainframes to microprocessors / Joel Shurki...
Engines of the mind : the evolution of the computer from mainframes to microprocessors / Joel Shurki...
Engines of the mind : the evolution of the computer from mainframes to microprocessors / Joel Shurkin.
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Publisher
New York : Norton, c1996.
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T0370640
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
363 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents
1. One, Two, Many -- 2. Sir Alphabet Function -- 3. Hollerith -- 4. Dinosaurs and Flip-Flops -- 5. Eckert and Mauchly -- 6. ENIAC -- 7. Von Neumann -- 8. UNIVAC -- 9. The First Dwarf -- 10. Bleak House -- 11. The Revolution.
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Publisher
New York : Norton, c1996.
Edition
[Updated pbk. ed.]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1996.
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Summary
When John Mauchly and Presper Eckert developed the Electronic Numerical Integrator and computer (ENIAC) at the University of Pennsylvania during World War II, their intention was simply to aid artillerymen in aiming their guns. Since then, in the past fifty years, ENIAC and its offspring have utterly changed the way we go about both business and sc...
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Engines of the mind : the evolution of the computer from mainframes to microprocessors / Joel Shurkin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-337) and index.
Transferred from N004.09/3.
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c1996.
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T0370640
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74VvZNPLpg3l
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ISBN
0393314715
9780393314717
DDC
004.09
MMS ID
991004681829702626
