This book tells the story of the birth of the technological world we now live in. It chronicles how computers reshaped World War II. And it does it all through the origins of 12 influential computers built between 1939 and 1950.
This book tells the story of the birth of the technological world we now live in. It chronicles how computers reshaped World War II. And it does it all through the origins of 12 influential computers built between 1939 and 1950.
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: Complex Number Calculator — building the foundations of digital computers * Chapter 4: Colossus — code-breaking 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 — pioneering British computer * Chapter 9: EDVAC, UNIVAC, & Princeton IAS — three computers with shared origins * Chapter 10: Pilot ACE — vacuum-tube powered early computing * Chapter 11: What happened next — 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: Complex Number Calculator — building the foundations of digital computers * Chapter 4: Colossus — code-breaking 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 — pioneering British computer * Chapter 9: EDVAC, UNIVAC, & Princeton IAS — three computers with shared origins * Chapter 10: Pilot ACE — vacuum-tube powered early computing * Chapter 11: What happened next — the growth of commercial computing
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