Building IBM shaping an industry and its technology

No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admiration, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM. Building IBM tells the story of that company, how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. Emerson Pugh prese...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Pugh, Emerson W.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1995.
SeriesHistory of computing.
Subjects
International Business Machines Corporation > History.
International Business Machines Corporation.
Computer industry > United States > History.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text

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Table of Contents:
  • Hollerith: inventor and entrepreneur
  • Origins of IBM
  • Watson: a man with a mission
  • Building an engineering organization
  • Responding to the Great Depression
  • Support for academic research
  • Research for patents and devices
  • World War II activities
  • Future demands
  • Preparing for peace
  • Government-funded competition
  • IBM's initial response
  • Watson, Jr., takes charge
  • Programming computers
  • An Air Defense system
  • Chasing new technologies
  • Legacy
  • Gambling on System/360
  • Commitment and delivery
  • Onrush of technology
  • Demands of the future
  • Appendixes.

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