ICL: A Business and Technical History: The Official History of Britain's Leading Information Systems Company

by Martin Campbell-Kelly and Campbell-Kelly

The history of ICL is synonymous with the history of the British computer industry. ICL was formed by a series of mergers in response to the increasing market dominance of the large American corporations, particularly IBM. The struggles between these two giants and the inherent problems and implications of competing with US multi-nationals are examined in detail in Campbell Kelly's wide ranging study. At the time of writing in the late 1980s, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198539185
• ISBN13: 9780198539186
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"