Computer : a history of the information machine / Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray

By:

Campbell-Kelly, Martin

Contributor(s):

Aspray, William

Material type: Text

TextSeries: The Sloan technology seriesPublication details: Oxford : Westview Press, 2004Edition: 2nd edDescription: xviii, 325p, 23cmISBN:

9780813342641

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DDC classification:

004.09 CAM

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The book traces 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.

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