A sweeping saga of colorful geniuses, Rube Goldberg-type devices, fase starts, dead ends, and serendipitous breakthroughs, this definitive history by two renowned scholars tells the "real" story of how the computer came to be flowing like a page-turning thriller, with each unlikely piece of the computer's development falling into place. Index. Illus. .
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A sweeping saga of colorful geniuses, Rube Goldberg-type devices, fase starts, dead ends, and serendipitous breakthroughs, this definitive history by two renowned scholars tells the "real" story of how the computer came to be flowing like a page-turning thriller, with each unlikely piece of the computer's development falling into place. Index. Illus. .
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