Computer
Subtitle: A History of the Information Machine (The Sloan Technology Series)
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780813342658
Subjects: History; Electronic data processing; Computer Science; Computer Bks - General Information; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Information Technology; General; General Theory of Computing; History of specific subjects; Computers
First sentence: The word computer is a misleading name for the ubiquitous machine that sits on our desks.
Table of contents: title: Before the computer. When computers were people -- The mechanical office -- Babbage’s dream comes true -- Creating the computer. Inventing the computer -- The computer becomes a business machine -- The maturing of the mainframe : the rise and fall of IBM -- Innovation and expansion. Real time : reaping the whirlwind -- Software -- New modes of computing -- Getting personal. The shaping of the personal computer -- Broadening the appeal -- From the world brain to the world wide web.