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This history of the computer explores the roots of the industry's phenomenal development, tracing not only the development of the machine itself--beginning with Charles Babbage's well-known 1883 mechanical prototype--but also chronicling the effects of manufacturing and sales innovations by such companies as Remington and National Cash Register that made the boom possible. The authors recount the transition from slow mechanical computers to the vacuum-tubed electronic computers, ENIAC and EDVAC, pioneered by a team led by mathematician John von Neumann during World War II. Later innovations made the computer a mass-market item, and now, the authors suggest, freedom of access to the technology is constrained only by the imperative of computer companies to make money.
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Most modern technology has developed over time as a result of many separate innovations. This certainly applies to the computer, whose history can be approached from multiple points of view. For example, one may choose to begin with the abacus, or perhaps with Charles Babbage's analytical engine. Campbell-Kelly and Aspray begin their version of the story when teams of humans manually performed the mathematical calculations necessary to compile navigational and actuarial tables. They detail Babbage's attempts to mechanize the process but suggest that, since his "computers" were digital machines and since he never actually completed one, he is wrongly credited with "fathering" the computer. The authors move on to trace the development of the electronic computer, consider key innovations, and explore the most recent 20 years of computer and software development. This readable account is another in the Sloan Technology series. David Rouse
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This is a history of the computer as a business tool and really only goes into detail after the ENIAC. There are interesting and informative parts on pre-computer office organisation and on human computers. Hardware from before 1945 is dealt with in a perfunctory manner: if I didn't already know what a differential analyser was like, I wouldn't find out from this book. Konrad Zuse gets just one sentence, and the Colossus similar short shrift. Actually this is understandable, because William Aspray has already edited a book on early machinery, "Computing Before Computers" which goes into great detail and has excellent pictures. Martin Campbell-Kelly also contributed to this book, which I suppose is Volume I and "History of the Information Machine" is Volume II. Little attention is paid to events outside the USA. I may be prejudiced, but nevertheless I find it interesting that a tea-shop chain developed a business computer which was demonstrated before Royalty a year before UNIVAC's famous TV appearance; and that Sir Charles Darwin, grandson of the other well-known Charles Darwin, was prominent in the development of the Pilot ACE. Neither fact is mentioned. Sir Clive Sinclair, who produced the first hobby computer that could actually be called cheap, doesn't appear in the book either. So buy this book - but try to get "Computing Before Computers" and "Early British Computers" (by Simon Lavington) as well.
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Campbell-Kelly and Aspray write a detailed account of the history of the computer, from when a computer was not a machine but rather a person who calculated numbers to the contemporary personal computer.
The book provides a very readable, while factual, history which illustrates the evolution of the computer over the past 200 years and provides many insights along the way. A new historical world of personalities and machines which were critical in the shaping of the computer of the late 20th century are removed from relative obscurity and made accessible to the reader.
The book provides a very readable, while factual, history which illustrates the evolution of the computer over the past 200 years and provides many insights along the way. A new historical world of personalities and machines which were critical in the shaping of the computer of the late 20th century are removed from relative obscurity and made accessible to the reader.
Where the book falters a little is in it's examination of the "Personal Computer" (or PC) and it's evolution over the last 25-30 years. The authors seem to go light on some details which are readily available in current media and some of their observations in this area are not as insightful as their earlier ones. The documentary "Triumph of the Nerds" would be a better source of information on this period of computer history. It consists of interviews with the people who were there when it happened, and many of the details Campbell-Kelly and Aspray skip/avoid/omit are in this entertaining documentary. On a personal note - since I grew up with the PC, and watched it make the computer a home appliance like a microwave or VCR, I was a little disappointed with this part of the book.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this title, and consider it a "must read" in the subject area.
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The Companies and Economics behind the PC
2. Januar 2001
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I recently finished this book and "Engines of the Mind : The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors" by Joel N. Shurkin. Both are attempts at writing a detailed history of the development of the computer and the events surrounding it, and I must admit that I found "Computer" much more entertaining than Shurkin's text.
The difference between the two books is very slight, however, it is significant. "Computer" walks us through the work of Charles Babbage and carries us through the backrooms of large businesses at the turn of the 19th century. The authors discuss the work and lives of the people that were the first 'computers' working all day long to finish calculations that were used in business, and then for the calculation of artillery tables in the world wars. It was the replacement of these workers and their omissive errors and necessarily slow speed and development time that drove the development of the huge mainframes that would be developed by the military. The authors do a great job of walking through the history of the early computer companies, especially Hollerith's Tabulating Machine Co., now IBM, and National Cash Register. The role that these two companies played in increasing the public's reliance and trust in machines was a key enabler of the computer revolution. The authors then take us through to modern times and we follow the ultra-competitive computer industry through wave after wave of consolidation and rapid technological innovation. This book also shows us a slight glimpse of the business forces behind the development of the transistor, and how this invention would wind up changing the world.
I could not have enjoyed this book more. Of the two, it definitely did the best job of focusing on the industry and economic changes that have led us to the modern computer age. The annecdotes and writing style of the authors is well-suited to the material and I very highly recommend this book. I also recommend the other book as well - I believe that if read together (with some time to digest in between them) they do a great job of painting the picture of a fascinating development of one of the most important technological changes in the history of man.
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An Excellent Read
26. Februar 2002
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There are countless books covering the PC revolution from about the 1970's and onwards, but not very many that carefully cover the saga of the 1800's and onward! This book does an excellent job at capturing what happened in the realm of computing from Babbage's work all the way up to what began the downfall of the mainframe to the minis.
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An informative account of the history of the computer
2. Januar 1998
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Campbell-Kelly and Aspray write a detailed account of the history of the computer, from when a computer was not a machine but rather a person who calculated numbers to the contemporary personal computer.
The book provides a very readable, while factual, history which illustrates the evolution of the computer over the past 200 years and provides many insights along the way. A new historical world of personalities and machines which were critical in the shaping of the computer of the late 20th century are removed from relative obscurity and made accessible to the reader.
The book provides a very readable, while factual, history which illustrates the evolution of the computer over the past 200 years and provides many insights along the way. A new historical world of personalities and machines which were critical in the shaping of the computer of the late 20th century are removed from relative obscurity and made accessible to the reader.
Where the book falters a little is in it's examination of the "Personal Computer" (or PC) and it's evolution over the last 25-30 years. The authors seem to go light on some details which are readily available in current media and some of their observations in this area are not as insightful as their earlier ones. The documentary "Triumph of the Nerds" would be a better source of information on this period of computer history. It consists of interviews with the people who were there when it happened, and many of the details Campbell-Kelly and Aspray skip/avoid/omit are in this entertaining documentary. On a personal note - since I grew up with the PC, and watched it make the computer a home appliance like a microwave or VCR, I was a little disappointed with this part of the book.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this title, and consider it a "must read" in the subject area.
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