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Starting with a short history of computing on the eve of World War II, this book illuminates humanity's desire for calculation aids throughout history, and how that led to the the computers from that time up to the computers of the Cold War Era.
Sommario
- Preface
- Introduction: Charles Babbage — inventor of the first mechanical computer
- Chapter 1: ABC — the Atanasoff–Berry computer
- Chapter 2: Z3 — an early electromechanical computer
- Chapter 3: Stibitz's computers — building the foundations of digital computers
- Chapter 4: Colossus — codebreaking computer that helped win a World War
- Chapter 5: Harvard Mark 1 — another pioneering electromechanical computer
- Chapter 6: ENIAC — the first programmable digital computer
- Chapter 7: Manchester Baby — the first electronic stored-program computer
- Chapter 8: EDSAC — early British computing
- Chapter 9: BINAC and EDVAC — pioneering electronic computers
- Chapter 10: Pilot ACE — vacuum-tube powered early computing
- Chapter 11: The 1950s — the growth of commercial computing
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Tim Danton is author of The Computers That Made Britain, a Raspberry Pi book, and editor-in-chief of the British technology magazine PC Pro. He has also helped to launch several technology websites, most recently TechFinitive.com, where he is a senior editor.
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Starting with a short history of computing on the eve of World War II, this book illuminates humanity's desire for calculation aids throughout history, and how that led to the the computers from that time up to the computers of the Cold War Era.
