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Before the Computer - IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956 (Hardcover, Revised edition)
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Before the Computer - IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956 (Hardcover, Revised edition)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in
the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the
period when the computer became its primary tool. As James Cortada
describes what was once called the "office appliance industry," he
challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary
technology. Cortada interprets reliance on computers as a
development within an important segment of the American economy
that was earlier represented largely by such instruments as
typewriters, tabulating machines, adding machines, and calculators.
He also describes how many of the practices of the office appliance
industry evolved into those of the computer world. Drawing on
previously unavailable industry archives, the author adds to our
understanding of IBM's early history and offers short corporate
histories of firms that include NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand.
Focusing on the United States but also including comparative
material on Europe and Asia, Before the Computer will be a unique
source of knowledge about the companies that built office equipment
and their enormous impact on economic life. Originally published in
1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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