Computer: A History of the Information Machine, 3rd Edition

This history of the computer explores the roots of the industry’s development, tracing not only the development of the machine itself–beginning with Charles Babbage’s 1833 mechanical prototype–but also chronicling the effects of manufacturing and sales innovations by companies that made the boom possible.

Table of Contents

Part One: BEFORE THE COMPUTER
Chapter 1: When Computers Were People
Chapter 2: The Mechanical Office
Chapter 3: Babbage’s Dream Comes True

Part Two: CREATING THE COMPUTER
Chapter 4: Inventing the Computer
Chapter 5: The Computer Becomes a Business Machine
Chapter 6: The Maturing of the Mainframe: The Rise of IBM

Part Three: INNOVATION AND EXPANSION
Chapter 7: Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind
Chapter 8: Software
Chapter 9: New Modes of Computing

Part Four: GETTING PERSONAL
Chapter 10: The Shaping of the Personal Computer
Chapter 11: Broadening the Appeal
Chapter 12: The Internet