Computer : A History of the Information Machine


Martin. Campbell-Kelly
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Medvirkende
Utgitt
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , cop. 2014
Omfang
1 online resource (377 p.)
Utgave
3rd ed.
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - 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.
Emner
Sjanger
Dewey
004 . - 004.09
ISBN
978-0-8133-4590-1

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