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Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956 (Princeton Studies in Business & Technology) (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 344 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press (15 April 1993)
Language English
ISBN-10: 069104807X
ISBN-13: 978-0691048079
Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm
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An investigation of the American data processing industry, from its 19th-century inception to the present day's reliance on computing systems. The author describes how many instruments used by earlier offices, such as typewriters, tabulating machines and calculators, simply evolved into computers.

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