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Wendy Phillips
Apr 8, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/8/99
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"A History of Modern Computing"
by Paul Ceruzzi
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262032554/wendysmall
"A History of Modern Computing" is an indispensable addition
to the growing canon of computer-history books. Works such
as Steven Levy's classic "Hackers" have covered similar
ground--the changing relationship of computers and users
from the days of hulking mainframes through the era of
time-shared minicomputers and the rise of the PC and the
Internet. But other books often sacrifice the broadest view
of their subject for the sake of a good story. Not this
book, which confidently interweaves all the varied strands
of individual, institutional, and broadly social effort that
have gone into the shaping of the modern computer.
by Paul Ceruzzi
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262032554/wendysmall
"A History of Modern Computing" is an indispensable addition
to the growing canon of computer-history books. Works such
as Steven Levy's classic "Hackers" have covered similar
ground--the changing relationship of computers and users
from the days of hulking mainframes through the era of
time-shared minicomputers and the rise of the PC and the
Internet. But other books often sacrifice the broadest view
of their subject for the sake of a good story. Not this
book, which confidently interweaves all the varied strands
of individual, institutional, and broadly social effort that
have gone into the shaping of the modern computer.
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