Title A history of modern computing / Paul E. Ceruzzi.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.

Location	Call Number	Status
Monograph Collection	QA76.17 .C47 2000	AVAILABLE

Description	x, 398 p. : ill.,charts, map, ; 23 cm.
Edition	First MIT Press pbk. ed.
Series	History of computing
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-382) and index.
Contents	Introduction: defining "computer" -- The advent of commercial computing, 1945-1956 -- Computing comes of age, 1956-1964 -- The early history of software, 1952-1968 -- From mainframe to minicomputer, 1959-1969 -- The Go-Go Years and the System/360, 1961-1975 -- The chip and its impact, 1965-1975 -- The personal computer, 1972-1977 -- Augmenting human intellect, 1975-1985 -- Workstations, UNIX, and the Net, 1981-1995 -- Conclusion: the digitization of the world picture.
Subject(s)	Computers -- History.
	Electronic data processing -- History.