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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Augarten, Stan. Bit by bit. New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1984 (OCoLC)560839916 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stan Augarten |
| ISBN: | 0899192688 9780899192680 0899193021 9780899193021 |
| OCLC Number: | 10695774 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 324 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Contents: | The first mechanical calculators -- The engines of Charles Babbage -- The bridge between two centuries -- The invention of ENIAC -- The stored-program computer -- The rise of IBM -- The Whirlwind Project -- The integrated circuit -- The personal computer -- Epilogue: the lesson of history -- Appendix: the FBI dossier of John William Mauchly -- Chronology of the history of computers. |
| Responsibility: | by Stan Augarten. |
Abstract:
Tells the story of the development of computers, plus the men and women who shaped its history.
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