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Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956
James W. Cortada
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Description for Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 402 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; KCX; KNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office appliance industry," he challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary technology. Cortada interprets reliance on computers as a development within an important segment of the American economy that was earlier represented largely by such instruments as typewriters, tabulating machines, adding machines, and calculators. He also describes how many of the practices of the office appliance industry evolved into those ... Read more
Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada describes what was once called the "office appliance industry," he challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary technology. Cortada interprets reliance on computers as a development within an important segment of the American economy that was earlier represented largely by such instruments as typewriters, tabulating machines, adding machines, and calculators. He also describes how many of the practices of the office appliance industry evolved into those ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
402
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691630083
SKU
V9780691630083
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Reviews for Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956
"The computer didn't spring full-blown from the brows of men like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The automation movement that prepared the way for today's personal computer, the author shows, began in the 19th century with the invention of the typewriter and the adding machine."
Washington Post Book World "Easily the best attempt to date to integrate the present-day computer industry ... Read more
Washington Post Book World "Easily the best attempt to date to integrate the present-day computer industry ... Read more