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Computer: a history of the information machine
Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Introduction to the Second Edition (page xi)
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Introduction to the First Edition (page xiii)
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Part One BEFORE THE COMPUTER
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1 When Computers Were People (page 3)
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2 The Mechanical Office (page 23)
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3 Babbage's Dream Comes True (page 45)
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Part Two CREATING THE COMPUTER
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4 Inventing the Computer (page 69)
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5 The Computer Becomes a Business Machine (page 93)
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6 The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM (page 117)
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Part Three INNOVATION AND EXPANSION
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7 Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind (page 141)
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8 Software (page 163)
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9 New Modes of Computing (page 185)
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Part Four GETTING PERSONAL
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10 The Shaping of the Personal Computer (page 207)
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11 Broadening the Appeal (page 231)
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12 From the World Brain to the World Wide Web (page 255)
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Notes (page 281)
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Bibliography (page 301)
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Index (page 315)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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TC | 39.4 (1998): 820-821 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v039/39.4br_campbell-kelly.html |
BJHS | 31.3 (Sep. 1998): 368-371 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4027822 |
ISIS | 89.1 (Mar. 1998): 93-99 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/236658 |
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Published: c2004
Publisher: Westview Press
- 9780813342658 (hardcover)
- 9780813342641 (paper)