ICL : a business and technical history / by Martin Campbell-Kelly.
Edizione:
Repr.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Clarendon press, 2005.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 409 p., [36] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Pt. 1. Punched-card machines: 1. Hollerith and the origins (c. 1880-1907) 2. The British tabulating machine company (1907-1919) 3. Manufacturing at home (the 1920s) 4. Heyday of the punched-card machine industry (the 1930s) 5. An interlude: the Second World War (1939-1945) 6. Pent-up demand (1945-1949) 7. Electronic machines (1950-1954) 8. Computers and the merger (1955-1958). Pt. 2. Computers: 9. The decline of the tabulator (1959-1961) 10. Negotiations and mergers (1961-1963) 11. The response to IBM system/360 (1964-1965) 12. Government relations and the formation of ICL (1964-1968) 13. ICL and the new range (1968-1972) 14. Government launching aid for the new range (1973-1975) 15. Rapid growth in a changing market (1975-1979) 16. Convergence (the 1980s) 17. Summing up: ICL and the evolving information business. Notes. Appendix 1: The TMC-BTM agreements. Appendix 2: Lists of directors. Index
