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Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956
by Cortada, James W
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. Third Printing. very good, very good. 344, illus., notes, index, DJ in plastic sleeve Princeton Studies in Business and 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 of the computer world. Drawing on previously unavailable industry archives, the author adds to our understanding of IBM's early history and offers short corporate histories of firms that include NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand.
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
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- Title
- Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956
- Author
- Cortada, James W
- Book Condition
- Used - very good, very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 069104807X
- ISBN 13
- 9780691048079
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, NJ
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- IBM, Business Machines, Nat Cash Register, Burroughs, Remington Rand, Hollerith, Punched Card, Felt and Tarrant, Typewriters
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