History of Modern Computing

This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late 1940s from a specialized scientific instrument to a commercial product, the emergence of small systems in the late 1960s, the beginning of personal computing in the 1970s, the spread of networking after 1985, and, in a chapter written for this edition, the p ...