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 The History of Computing
A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This lively Very Short Introduction reviews the central events, machines, and people that feature in established accounts of the history of computing, critically examining received perceptions and providing a fresh look at the nature and development of the modern electronic computer. The book begins by discussing a widely accepted linear narrative of the history of computing, centred around innovatory highlights that start with the use of knotted cords to aid calculation, all the way to the smartphones of the present day. It discusses the problems and simplifications present in such a narrative, and offers instead an account, centred on users, that identifies four distinct historical threads: calculation, automatic computing, information management, and communication. These threads are examined individually, tracing their paths and the convergences of related technologies into what has come to be called ‘the information age’. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introduction series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The History of Computing A Very Short Introduction 1st Table of contents:

 Chapter 1. History and computing
Who writes history?
National differences
Emergence as a field of study
Master narratives
Timeline histories
Need as historical cause
Replacement
Other discomforts
User-based model
Calculation
Automatic computation
Information management
Communication
Deconstructing the first master narrative
Date markers
Other master narratives
Chapter 2. Calculation
Physical aids
Abacus
Mechanism
Scaled devices
Slide rules
Precision
Mechanical calculators
The Pascaline
Analogue and digital
A machine that thinks
Leibniz’s calculator
Re-inventing Leibniz
Turning point
Pinwheels and keyboards
The office appliance industry
The replacement thesis
Chapter 3. Automatic computation
Machine computation
From calculation to computing
Ada Lovelace
Correctives
The hundred dark years
Analogue computers
Predicting the tides
Solving equations
Abandoned past
Behemoths
Technology
Konrad Zuse’s Z-series
Stibitz and Bell Labs
Harvard Mark I
Bugs
Positioning the Mark I
Chapter 4. Electronic computing
The ABC computer
Code-breaking and Colossus
Heath Robinson
Fiction and fact
Problems with guns
ENIAC
Reliability
Architecture
Situating ENIAC
A chance meeting
Contested provenance
Internal stored program
What happened next
The first generation
The ‘Baby’
The Cambridge EDSAC
Software
Framing EDSAC
Computers as products
Election coup
Chapter 5. The computer boom
IBM stirs
Technology and the Cold War
Magnetic-core memory
Reliability
Air defence
Innovation spinoffs
The cheque crisis
Credit cards
Airline reservation
IBM and the seven dwarves
System/360
Chapter 6. Revolution
Solid-state electronics
Integrated circuits
Moore’s Law
Revolution
Minicomputers
The PDP-8
A problem of recency
The microprocessor
The personal computer
Microsoft and Apple
Untold histories
The IBM PC
Chapter 7. The future of history
The collapse of categories
Decentring
Software
A new master narrative
Further reading
Index

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