Computer A History of the Information Machine

Name: Computer A History of the Information Machine
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ISBN: 9780813342641

ISBN-10: 0813342643

ISBN-13: 9780813342641

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Martin Campbell-Kelly, William Aspray

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Book details

List price: $49.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

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



Acknowledgments


Introduction to the Second Edition


Introduction to the First Edition



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


Notes


Bibliography


Index