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The punch-card era was brief, but Cortada, a former IBM executive and prolific writer on data processing, finds it remarkably predictive of today's computer industry. He focuses on business structures and marketing practices developed for card equipment, typewriters, calculators, and other office machines and gives extensive, if dry, detail on the financial and distribution sides of the industry. Short corporate histories are featured on NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand, and individual industry achievers such as Thomas Watson are also profiled at length, though exclusively through their business personae. For business history collections. (Index not seen.)-- Justine Roberts, Mill Valley, Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"The computer didn't spring full-blown from the brows of men like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The automation movement that prepared the way for today's personal computer, the author shows, began in the 19th century with the invention of the typewriter and the adding machine."
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The punch-card era was brief, but Cortada, a former IBM executive and prolific writer on data processing, finds it remarkably predictive of today's computer industry. He focuses on business structures and marketing practices developed for card equipment, typewriters, calculators, and other office machines and gives extensive, if dry, detail on the financial and distribution sides of the industry. Short corporate histories are featured on NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand, and individual industry achievers such as Thomas Watson are also profiled at length, though exclusively through their business personae. For business history collections. (Index not seen.)-- Justine Roberts, Mill Valley, Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From The Washington Post
"The computer didn't spring full-blown from the brows of men like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. The automation movement that prepared the way for today's personal computer, the author shows, began in the 19th century with the invention of the typewriter and the adding machine."
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United States, Remington Rand, New York, Burroughs Papers, Bureau of the Census, World Trade, Great Depression, Machines Bull, New Deal, Tabulating Machine Company, Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Justice Department, Department of Justice, Latin America, Office Equipment Catalogue, Department of Commerce, Year Net, Antitrust Division, National Cash Register Company, West Germany, American Arithmometer Company, International Business Machines, Korean War, North America, United Kingdom New!
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- The Adding Machine: Selected Essays by William S. Burroughs on 29 pages
- A History of Computing Technology, 2nd Edition by Michael R. Williams on 8 pages
- The Computer Establishment by Katharine Davis Fishman on 4 pages
- Economics of Computers by William F. Sharpe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Data Processing Technology and Economics by Phister in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. on 10 pages
- Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century (Studies in Industry and Society) by JoAnne Yates on 9 pages
- Technology in the Hospital: Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century by Joel D. Howell on 4 pages
- From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing by Atsushi Akera on page 40, page 187, and Back Matter
- The Computer Industry (Emerging Industries in the United States) by Jeffrey R. Yost on page 24, page 50, and Back Matter
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