Computer [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the information machine / / Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray
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| Autore: |
Campbell-Kelly Martin
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| Titolo: |
Computer [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the information machine / / Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray
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| Pubblicazione: | Boulder, Colo., : Westview Press, 2004 |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 004.09 |
| 004/.09 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Computers - History |
| Electronic data processing - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
AsprayWilliam
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| 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"" |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Computer |
| ISBN: | 0-8133-4265-1 |
| 1-281-60670-7 | |
| 9786613787415 | |
| 0-7867-2991-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248049903316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Sloan technology series.