Building IBM: shaping an industry and its technology/
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press,
c1995
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| Series: | History of computing
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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