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An edition of Computer (1996)

Computer

a history of the information machine

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Publish Date
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
342

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Cover of: Computer
Computer: A History of the Information Machine (The Sloan Technology Series)
May 1997, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
Cover of: Computer
Computer: a history of the information machine
1996, Basic Books
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Computer
Computer
1996, Basic Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Computer
Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Sloan Technology Series)
August 1996, Basic Books
in English

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Table of Contents

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
The shift to software
From the world brain to the World Wide Web.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-333) and index.

Published in
New York
Series
The Sloan technology series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
004/.09
Library of Congress
QA76.17 .C36 1996

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
ix, 342 p. :
Number of pages
342
Dimensions
24 x 16 x 3 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL965758M
Internet Archive
computerhistoryo00camp
ISBN 10
0465029892
LCCN
96002098
OCLC/WorldCat
34149613
Library Thing
60564
Goodreads
6506428

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