This is one of the best histories of computers because of the pictures.
UNIVAC 1, IBM 701, IBM 650, IBM System/360, Digital PDP-8 and PDP-11, Altair, a section Apple Computer (2 pictures of the Apple I, Apple II) and Macintosh (Lisa 2 and Macintosh 128), IBM PC and more.Table of Contents
Introduction
Ch. 1 Early Mechanical Calculators 4
Ch. 2 The First Robot: Jacquard\'s Loom 12
Ch. 3 Punched Cards and the Birth of IBM 22
Ch. 4 Developing the Vacuum Tube 28
Ch. 5 Heavy Metal Dinosaurs 34
Ch. 6 What World War II Did for Technology 40
Ch. 7 Computers Go to Work 54
Ch. 8 The Transistor 60
Ch. 9 IBM Moves Ahead 66
Ch. 10 Digital Equipment Corporation and the Minicomputer 72
Ch. 11 Data Communications 76
Ch. 12 The Integrated Circuit 86
Ch. 13 Early Microprocessors 90
Ch. 14 Early Personal Computers 94
Ch. 15 The Two Steves 98
Ch. 16 The IBM Personal Computer 108
Ch. 17 The Software Explosion 114
Ch. 18 The Macintosh 120
Ch. 19 Computing on the Go 126
Ch. 20 Point and Click Computing 130
Ch. 21 Key Developments 136
Ch. 22 Computers Everywhere 140
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