num_pages: 360
description:  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 again and fall and potential rise of the dot.com industries.
language: English
title: Computer: A History of the Information Machine
publisher: Westview Press