Computer
Subtitle: A History of the Information Machine
Edition: 2 edition
Series: The Sloan Technology Series
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: July 30, 2004
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780813342641
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Computing and Information Technology; History of engineering & technology; History of specific subjects; Electronic data processing; Computer Science; Computer Bks - General Information; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; History; Information Technology; Computers
First sentence: The word computer is a misleading name for the ubiquitous machine that sits on our desks.
Table of contents: label: Acknowldgements
title: ix; label: Introduction to the Second Edition
title: xi; label: Introduction to the First Edition
title: xiii; title: Part One - Before the computer; label: 1 When Computers Were People
title: 3; label: 2 The Mechanical Office
title: 23; label: 3 Babbage's Dream Comes True
title: 45; title: Part Two - Creating the Computer; label: 4 Inventing the Computer
title: 69; label: 5 The Computer Becomes a Business Machine
title: 93; label: 6 The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM
title: 117; title: Part Three - Innovation and Expansion; label: 7 Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind
title: 141; label: 8 Software
title: 163; label: 9 New Modes of Computing
title: 185; title: Part Four - Getting Personal; label: 10 The Shaping of the Personal Computer
title: 207; label: 11 Broadening the Appeal
title: 231; label: 12 From the World Brain to the World Wide Web
title: 255; label: Notes
title: 281; label: Bibliography
title: 301; label: Index
title: 315