Computer Perspective - Hardcover

Eames, Charles; Eames, Ray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674156250 ISBN 13: 9780674156258

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1973

Synopsis

Photographs and commentary document the evolution of the modern computer from tabulating machines used in the U.S. in the 1890's

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Review

[This] book set a standard for the history of computing. This book set a standard for the history of computing. -- P. E. Ceruzzi "Computing Reviews" "A Computer Perspective" is the first truly graphic history of the origin and development of the computer...This book will long remain a unique anthology of the great events that occur when dreamers and theorists can get together with engineers and inventors. "A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age" sets out to... place the digital computer in its historical context, taking 1950 as its terminal date. By then, the digital computer revolution had been fully inaugurated with the first generation of modern stored-program computers. The book casts a wide net as it presents, mainly with pictures and captions, the many contributory ideas and developments that provide the foundation and background for the computer age...This is a book full of interesting pictures and quotations. It brings out the technical, human and social aspects of the development of computers in an imaginative way. Who could resist a book containing such fascinating information? -- Antony Anderson "New Scientist"

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674156250
• ISBN 13: 9780674156258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Fleck Glen