Computer A History of the Information Machine

Name: Computer A History of the Information Machine
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ISBN: 9780813345901

ISBN-10: 0813345901

ISBN-13: 9780813345901

Edition: 3rd 2014

Authors: Martin Campbell-Kelly, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, Jeffrey R. Yost

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Book details

List price: $65.70
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 7/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Martin Campbell-Kelly is Reader in Computer Science at the University of Warwick.

Nathan L. Ensmenger is Assistant Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.



Acknowledgments


Preface to the Third Edition


Introduction



Before the Computer



When Computers Were People



The Mechanical Office



Babbage's Dream Comes True



Creating the Computer



Inventing the Computer


Photos: From Babbage's Difference Engine to System/360



The Computer Becomes a Business Machine



The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise of IBM



Innovation and Expansion



Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind



Software


Photos: From SAGE to the Internet



New Modes of Computing



Getting Personal



The Shaping of the Personal Computer



Broadening the Appeal



The Internet


Notes


Bibliography


Index