The History of Computers

Another in the Ziff-Davis series of classy computer books introducing the history of computers to non-computer specialists with understandable text and beautifully rendered photos and illustrations. Freed explains the early mechanics of calculators and robotics, the birth of IBM, the role World War II played in technological development, the industrial evolution of computing from IBM to "the two Steves" in their now famous garage, and the advent of the PC which has made computers ubiquitous. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.