| Description |
xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Atsushi Akera and Frederik Nebeker -- I. Machines -- 1. Computing before the Computer / Michael Williams -- 2. Information Processing before the Computer, 1865-1950 / James W. Cortada -- 3. The New Electronic Technology / Brian Randell -- 4. Calculating Machines / Earl E. Swartzlander, Jr. -- 5. The Early Computers / Atsushi Akera -- 6. Pioneers in Computing / J. A. N. Lee -- II. Software -- 7. Software: The Self-Programming Machine / Michael S. Mahoney -- 8. A View from the Sixties: How the Software Industry Began / Luanne Johnson -- 9. Personal Computer Software / Paul Ceruzzi -- 10. Computer Networks / Janet Abbate -- 11. Computer Interfaces / Susan B. Barnes -- 12. Computers in Use / Frederik Nebeker -- III. The Computer Industry -- 13. The Modern Computer Business / Arthur L. Norberg -- 14. Computers in the Marketplace / Martin Campbell-Kelly -- 15. Government and the Emerging Computer Industry / Robert W. Seidel |
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App. A. The History of Computing Literature / James W. Cortada -- App. B. Archives and Online Sources / Henry Lowood -- App. C. Oral History / Frederik Nebeker -- App. D. Computing Artifact Collections / Michael N. Geselowitz |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Computer science -- History.
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Computers.
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Computer software.
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| Author |
Nebeker, Frederik.
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Akera, Atsushi.
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| LC no. |
2001034058 |
| ISBN |
0195140257 |
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