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9780813342641

Computer : A History of the Information Machine, Second Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813342641

  • ISBN10:

    0813342643

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-08-12
  • Publisher: Westview Pr

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Summary

Computer: A History of the Information Machine, Second Editiontraces the story of the computer, and shows how business and government were the first to explore its unlimited, information-processing potential. Old-fashioned entrepreneurship combined with scientific know-how inspired now famous computer engineers to create the technology that became IBM. Wartime needs drove the giant ENIAC, the first fully electronic computer. Later, the PC enabled modes of computing that liberated people from room-sized, mainframe computers. This second edition now extends beyond the development of Microsoft Windows and the Internet, to include open source operating systems like Linux, and the rise again and fall and potential rise of the dot.com industries.

Author Biography

Martin Campbell-Kelly is professor of computer science at the University of Warwick in England. William Aspray is Rudy Professor of Informatics at Indiana University. Both are historians with a specialization in the history of computers. Martin Campbell-Kelly is professor of computer science at the University of Warwick in England. William Aspray is Rudy Professor of Informatics at Indiana University. Both are historians with a specialization in the history of computers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction to the Second Edition xi
Introduction to the First Edition xiii
Part One BEFORE THE COMPUTER
When Computers Were People
3(20)
The Mechanical Office
23(22)
Babbage's Dream Comes True
45(24)
Part Two CREATING THE COMPUTER
Inventing the Computer
69(24)
The Computer Becomes a Business Machine
93(24)
The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM
117(24)
Part Three INNOVATION AND EXPANSION
Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind
141(22)
Software
163(22)
New Modes of Computing
185(22)
Part Four GETTING PERSONAL
The Shaping of the Personal Computer
207(24)
Broadening the Appeal
231(24)
From the World Brain to the World Wide Web
255(26)
Notes 281(20)
Bibliography 301(14)
Index 315

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