Before the computer
Subtitle: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the industry they created, 1865-1956
By: James W. Cortada
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Series: Princeton studies in business and technology
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780691050454
Description: "Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. James Cortada describes how many of the practices of the "office appliance industry" evolved into those of the computer world. This book challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary technology - by establishing its evolutionary links to the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-336) and index.