Before the Computer

Before the Computer

IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956

by James W. Cortada

350 pages· 2000· ISBN 9780691050454
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An investigation of the American data processing industry, from its 19th-century inception to the 20th century reliance on computing systems. The author describes how many instruments used by earlier offices, such as typewriters, tabulating machines and calculators, simply evolved into computers.

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