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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
* 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: EDVAC — an early electronic computer * Chapter 10: BINAC — first stored-program computer in the United States * Chapter 11: Pilot ACE — vacuum-tube powered early computing * Chapter 12: The 1950s — the growth of commercial computing
* 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: EDVAC — an early electronic computer * Chapter 10: BINAC — first stored-program computer in the United States * Chapter 11: Pilot ACE — vacuum-tube powered early computing * Chapter 12: The 1950s — the growth of commercial computing
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