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A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition

A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition

A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition Paperback - 1990

by Eames, Charles,Eames, Ray

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A splendid, graphic history of the origin and development of the computer, this classic work is a timeless record of the most profound technological revolution in the history of humankind. The book's decade-by-decade format is highlighted with hundreds of illustrations, memorabilia and artifacts collected from around the world. Halftones and illustrations.

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Harvard University Press, 9/1/1990 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.6693 in x 8.7795 in x 8.7402 in. New Edition. Lightly read. No markings in book. Binding is fine. 174pp.
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  • Title A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition
  • Author Eames, Charles,Eames, Ray
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Rev Sub
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 9/1/1990 12:00:01 AM
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000034105
  • ISBN 9780674156265 / 0674156269
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.78 x 8.76 x 0.5 in (22.30 x 22.25 x 1.27 cm)
  • Size 0.6693 in x 8.7795 in x 8.7402 i
  • Category Computers - General Information
  • Library of Congress subjects Computers - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90-38099
  • Dewey Decimal Code 001.609
  • Quantity available 1

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A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in the creators of instruments of computation, and their machines or tables; the inventors of mathematical or logical concepts and their applications; and the fabricators of practical devices to serve the immediate needs of government, commerce, engineering, and science.

The book is based on an exhibition conceived and assembled for International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. Like the exhibition, it is not a history in the narrow sense of a chronology of concepts and devices. Yet these pages actually display more true history (in relation to the computer) than many more conventional presentations of the development of science and technology.

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