A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition

by Ray Eames and Charles Eames

Book Overview

A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in the creators of instruments of computation, and their machines or tables; the inventors of mathematical or logical concepts and their applications; and the fabricators of practical devices to serve the immediate needs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674156269
• ISBN13: 9780674156265
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Background to the Computer Age

So many books focus on the 60's as a start point with a brief synopsis of the beforehand but this visual essay lays out the territory from Babbage in the 1800's to SEAC in the 50's with the emphasis on a pictorial timeline and some factual points. Its an overview of the computers pre-history which ran alongside Charles and Ray Eames' IBM exhibition 'A Computer Perspective' - all important research for computer 'Nerdcorps' and historical browsers alike.

A complete guide to computer history.

Clear, but brief details on a vast array of the people, machines, and problems associated with the invention of the computer. It's a very picture intense book that makes learning the computer age interesting and somewhat exciting. This extensive collection of pictures ranges from the real news articles to the inventors actually working the machines. This book acts as a perfect quick-reference to the computer age.