Screen LibraryComputer : a history of the information machine /
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group,
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| Publisher Address: | Boulder, CO : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: |
The Sloan technology series
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-342) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780813345901 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 0813345901 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | QA76 |
| CLC: | TP3-09 |
| Call Number: | TP3-09/C188/3rd ed. |
| Contents: | Preface to the Third Edition -- Part One. BEFORE THE COMPUTER -- When Computers Were People -- The Mechanical Office -- Babbage's Dream Comes True -- Part Two. CREATING THE COMPUTER -- Inventing the Computer -- The Computer Becomes a Business Machine -- The Maturing of the Mainframe : The Rise of IBM -- Part Three. INNOVATION AND EXPANSION -- Real Time : Reaping the Whirlwind -- Software -- New Modes of Computing -- Part Four. GETTING PERSONAL -- The Shaping of the Personal Computer -- Broadening the Appeal -- The Internet. |