Computer
Subtitle: A History of the Information Machine
Edition: First edition
Series: The Sloan Technology Series
Publisher: BasicBooks
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Number of pages: 342
Copyright date: 1996
Table of contents: label: Acknowldgements
title: ix; label: Introduction
title: 1; label: Part One - Before the computer; label: 1 When Computers Were People
title: 9; label: 2 The Mechanical Office
title: 29; label: 3 Babbage's Dream Comes True
title: 53; label: Part Two - Creating the Computer; label: 4 Inventing the Computer
title: 79; label: 5 The Computer Becomes a Business Machine
title: 105; label: 6 The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM
title: 131; label: Part Three - Innovation and Expansion; label: 7 Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind
title: 157; label: 8 Software
title: 181; label: 9 New Modes of Computing
title: 207; label: Part Four - Getting Personal; label: 10 The Shaping of the Personal Computer
title: 233; label: 11 The Shift to Software
title: 259; label: 12 From the World Brain to the World Wide Web
title: 283; label: Notes
title: 301; label: Bibliography
title: 321; label: Index
title: 334