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Cortada Before the Computer
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IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956
E-Book, Englisch, Band 1775, 402 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7276-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Pt. 1 Origins of a New Industry, 1865-1920 1
1 From Opportunities to Typewriters 3
2 Adding and Calculating Machines 25
3 Hollerith and the Development of Punched Card Tabulation 44
4 Cash Registers and the National Cash Register Company 64
5 Rudiments of an Industry Identified 79
Pt. 2 An Age of Office Machines, 1920-1941 89
6 Economic Conditions and the Role of Standardization 91
7 Products, Practices, and Prices 105
8 Commercial and Scientific Applications of Punched Card Machines 128
9 International Trade in Punched Card Machines 137
10 The Great Depression in the United States 144
11 IBM and Powers/Remington Rand 149
12 Other Accounting Machines and Their Uses 158
13 Vendors, Practices, and Results 171
Pt. 3 World War II and the Postwar Office Appliance Industry, 1941-1956 187
14 Economics, Government Controls, and Applications 189
15 The Role of Major Vendors, 1939-1946 206
16 Industry Structure, Vendors, and Practices, 1945-1956 222
17 Business Volumes 247
18 Conclusion: The Roles of Marketing, Distribution, and Technology 264
Notes 289
Index 331