This book studies how a technological innovation -- in this case the computer -- progresses from its origin as an idea in someone's mind to its eventual manifestation as a useable and marketable consumer product.
Chapter 1 Issues and the Debate;
Chapter 2 Technical Origins of the
Computer;
Chapter 3 Analog, Electromechanical, and Digital Machines;
Chapter
4 Vendors Initial Responses to the Computer;
Chapter 5 The Public and
Customers Meet the Computer;
Chapter 6 Patterns in Office Equipment
Technology;
James W. Cortada is a Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota.
