Computer
Subtitle: a history of the information machine
By: Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray.
Contributors: Aspray, William.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Sloan technology series
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Computers -- History; Electronic data processing -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the computer: When computers were people; title: The mechanical office; title: Babbage's dream comes true; title: Creating the computer: Inventing the computer; title: The computer becomes a business machine; title: The maturing of the mainframe: the rise and fall of IBM; title: Innovation and expansion: Real time: reaping the whirlwind; title: Software; title: New modes of computing; title: Getting personal: The shaping of the personal computer; title: The shift to software; title: From the world brain to the World Wide Web.