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Author Campbell-Kelly, Martin.

Title Computer : a history of the information machine / Martin Campbell-Kelly, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, and Jeffrey R. Yost.

Publication Info. Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
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Edition Third edition.
Description 1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series The Sloan technology series
Sloan technology series.
Contents Acknowledgments; Preface to the Third Edition; Introduction; 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; Photo: From Babbage's Difference Engine to System/360; 5. The Computer Becomes a Business Machine; 6. The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise of IBM; Part Three: INNOATION AND EXPANSION; 7. Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind; 8. Software; Photo: From Sage to the Internet; 9. New Modes of Computing; Part Four: GETTING PERSONAL.
10. The Shaping of the Personal Computer11. Broadening the Appeal; 12. The Internet; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary This history of the computer explores the roots of the industry's development, tracing not only the development of the machine itself--beginning with Charles Babbage's 1833 mechanical prototype--but also chronicling the effects of manufacturing and sales innovations by companies that made the boom possible.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Computers -- History.
Computers.
History.
Electronic data processing -- History.
Electronic data processing.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Added Author Aspray, William.
Ensmenger, Nathan, 1972-
Yost, Jeffrey R.
Other Form: Print version: Campbell-Kelly, Martin. Computer : A History of the Information Machine. New York : Westview Press, ©2013 9780813345901
ISBN 9780813345918 (electronic book)
081334591X (electronic book)
9781785391279
1785391275
9780813345901 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0813345901 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. YBP10838989

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