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Title: A Computer Perspective
Condition: New
Subtitle: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition
Author: Ray Eames, Charles Eames
Contributor: Robert Staples (Producer), Glen Fleck (Edited by), I. Bernard Cohen (Introduction by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0674156269
EAN: 9780674156265
ISBN: 9780674156265
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Genre: Computing & Internet
Release Date: 01/09/1990
Description:

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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