Computers: Their And How They Work
Language: English
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1969
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.The Chatham Bookseller
AbeBooks seller since February 13, 2015
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 97.21
Quantity: 1 available
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126pp. Yellow boards, black lettering. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, many of them of the original computers. Minor wear to the corners of the front panel, othewise unread, internally fine copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket is bright with minor edgewear. in mylar sleeve. A young adult's introduction to the world of computers, starting with the abacus, invented over 2,000 years ago, the history of the computer is traced through the first digital computer, Harvard's Mark I, p to the most sopishticated electronic digital computers in use today. Size: Octavo.
Seller Inventory # 031297
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Computers: Their And How They Work
- Author
- Rusch, Richard B.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, New York
- Publication year
- 1969
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0671650653
- ISBN 13
- 9780671650650
- Edition
- Second Printing.
The Chatham Bookseller
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