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1.
Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing
Contributors:
Publisher:
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1991
Subjects:
Word Processing
Authorship--Data Processing
Hypertext Systems
Text Processing (Computer Science)
Electronic Publishing
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...linguistics, and philosophy. The computer is a machine for creating...verbal, or pictorial.Computer programming and indeed all...in applied semiotics. The first lesson any sophisti­cated computer user must learn is the difference...
2.
Computer: A History of the Information Machine
Contributors:
Publisher:
Basic Books 1996
Subjects:
Computers--History
Electronic Data Processing--History
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computer industry, Doriot convinced Olsen to first establish the firmwith more...provided thefunding for DEC's first computer development. DEC announced...1965. The PDP-8 was the first computer toexploit the newly emerging...
3.
The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer
Contributors:
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons 2000
Subjects:
Numeration--History
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...seventeenth century, first of all inthe work of...world his creation of the first abstractalgebraic structures...mathematics,for the first time in its history, an undivided subject...thefoundation of the computer science which is being...
4.
Electronic and Computer Music
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1994 (2nd edition)
Subjects:
Electronic Music--History And Criticism
Computer Music--History And Criticism
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...generating soundsamples. His first attempts consisted of two experimental...fourtriangle-wave functions.The computer employed, an IBM 704, was...directly in assembler code. The first commer­cial computer had been marketed by Remington...
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Business History around the World at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Contributors:
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press 2003
Subjects:
Economic History--1990-
Business--History
Industrial Organization--Cross-Cultural Studies
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...coming of the electronic computer.Its evolution provides...classic illustration of first-mover advantages...Remington Rand, the first mover in type­writers...introduced the UNIVAC, the first gi­ant commercial computer, but IBM immediately...
6.
Studies in Accounting History: Tradition and Innovation for the Twenty-First Century
Contributors:
Publisher:
Greenwood Press 1995
Subjects:
Accounting--History--20th Century
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...variable.Product planning should come first because product and technology are thevery...obscure the core issues, as seen in the history of the American autoindustry.The following...Information System, or try­ing to let computer run the business), OR (Operations...
7.
Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling
Contributors:
Publisher:
Stanford University Press 2012
Subjects:
Comic Books, Strips, Etc.--United States--History and Criticism
Motion Pictures and Comic Books--United States
Narration (Rhetoric)
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...that drawscreators to this form in the first place. And similarly, I would suggest...same time as the rise of the personal computer, is nocoincidence. Suddenly, the need...culturally devalued) than at any timein modern history. The comic, because of the unique way...
8.
The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896: The History of Its First Half Century
Contributors:
Publisher:
Smithsonian Institution 1897
Subjects:
Smithsonian Institution--History
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...subsequent discoveries by her malerivals -- Bond, Van Arsdale, Tuttle, and others. Miss Mit­chell subsequently became a computer for the "AmericanEphemeris," and the gallantry was continued by assigning toher all the calculations relating to the planet...
9.
Schaum's Outline of Principles of Computer Science
Contributors:
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill 2008
Subjects:
Computer Science--Problems, Exercises, Etc
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...Figure 1–8 The first computer bug(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos...Germans. Zuse's first computer, the Z1, was built...Zuse's Z3 was the first fully functional program-controlled computer inthe world.The...
10.
Japan's Computer and Communications Industry: The Evolution of Industrial Giants and Global Competitiveness
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 1995
Subjects:
Computer Industry--Japan
Telecommunication Equipment Industry--Japan
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...and Tohoku University, NEC produced its first computer, the NEAC 2201, whichit claims was also the world's first fully transistorized computer.The early history of the Japanese computer companies is recounted...
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