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224 pages • hardcover • first pub 2011 • 3 editions
ISBN/UID: 9780262015899
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Edition Pub Date: 19 Aug 2011
Description
Why the card catalog--a "paper machine" with rearrangeable elements--can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data proc...
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224 pages • hardcover • 2011
ISBN/UID: 9780262015899
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Edition Pub Date: 19 Aug 2011
Description
Why the card catalog--a "paper machine" with rearrangeable elements--can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data proc...