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This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first
electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates
on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the
late 1940s from a specialized scientific instrument to a commercial product; the
emergence of small systems in the late 1960s; the beginning of personal
computing in the 1970s; the spread of networking after 1985; and, in a chapter
written for this edition, the period 1995-2001. The new material focuses on the
Microsoft antitrust suit, the rise and fall of the dot-coms, and the advent of
open source software, particularly Linux.

Table Of Contents

Dedication
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Defining "Computer" 1
1 The Advent of Commercial Computing, 1945-1956 13
2 Computing Comes of Age, 1956-1964 47
3 The Early History of Software, 1952-1968 79
4 From Mainframe to Minicomputer, 1959-1969 109
5 The "Go-Go" Years and the System/360, 1961-1975 143
6 The Chip and Its Impact, 1965-1975 177
7 The Personal Computer, 1972-1977 207
8 Augmenting Human Intellect, 1975-1985 243
9 Workstations, UNIX, and the Net, 1981-1995 281
10 "Internet Time," 1995-2001 307
Conclusion: The Digitization of the World Picture 345
Notes 351
Bibliography 415
Index 431

Product Details

* ISBN: 0262532034
* ISBN-13: 9780262532037
* Format: Paperback, 488pp
* Publisher: Universal Music International/
* Pub. Date: May 2003
* Edition Description: Subsequent
* Edition Number: 2

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