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Record Nr.

UNISA996248049903316

Autore

Campbell-Kelly Martin

Titolo

Computer [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the information machine / / Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colo., : Westview Press, 2004

ISBN

0-8133-4265-1

1-281-60670-7

9786613787415

0-7867-2991-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Sloan technology series

Altri autori (Persone)

AsprayWilliam

Disciplina

004.09

004/.09

Soggetti

Computers - History

Electronic data processing - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-314) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part One: BEFORE THE COMPUTER -- 1. When Computers Were People -- 2. The Mechanical Office -- 3. Babbage's Dream Comes True -- Part Two: CREATING THE COMPUTER -- 4. Inventing the Computer -- 5. The Computer Becomes a Business Machine -- 6. The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM -- Part Three: INNOVATION AND EXPANSION -- 7. Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind -- 8. Software -- 9. New Modes of Computing -- Part Four: GETTING PERSONAL-- 10. The Shaping of the Personal Computer -- 11. Broadening the Appeal -- 12. From the World Brain to the World Wide Web

Sommario/riassunto

""Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition traces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing""