IBM's Early Computers: A Technical History
Bashe, Charles J.; Johnson, Lyle R.; Palmer, John H.; Pugh, Emerson W.
Language: English
Published by MIT Press, 1986
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- Title
- IBM's Early Computers: A Technical History
- Author
- Bashe, Charles J.; Johnson, Lyle R.; Palmer, John H.; Pugh, Emerson W.
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262022257
- ISBN 13
- 9780262022255
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
IBM's Early Computers is a unique contribution to the modern history of computers. It focuses on engineering alternatives rather than business and general management considerations and reveals the significance of imaginative solutions to problems in design and technology, from initial experiments with electronics in digital machines to the threshold of the System 360 era. This fair and balanced account of IBM's role in shaping today's electronic revolution identifies the individuals (both inside and outside the company) whose pioneering work influenced developments at IBM.
The book's fourteen chapters briefly survey the card machine era and then cover electronic calculation, the magnetic drum calculator, the Defense Calculator and other first-generation products, ferrite core memories, magnetic tape, and disk storage development, programming, transistors, "Project Stretch" (which involved disappointments but led to one of IBM's greatest successes) high-speed printers, research, and new-product-line considerations.
IBM's Early Computers is included in the History of Computing Series, edited by I. Bernard Cohen and William Aspray.
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