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- 160 pages
- 60 or more black-and-white photos, drawings, and maps
- 7" x 9"
- Reinforced library binding
- Source notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Glossary
- Timeline of computer history
- Grades 5 and up
- ISBN: 1-881508-57-9
- $22.95
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The history of the industry and its movers and shakers are profiled
in an engrossing manner. . . . The book begins with a history of computing
and calculating machines and continues with short biographies of the men
who founded and headed the businesses that molded the industry as we know
it today. Each chapter includes pertinent black-and-white photographs
of the inventions and people discussed.
School Library Journal
Includes Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM); An Wang (Wang Laboratories);
Seymour Cray (Cray Research); Robert Noyce and Gordon
Moore (Intel); Bill Gates (Microsoft); Steve Jobs (Apple
Computer); and Steve Case (America Online).
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