Building IBM

Author: Emerson W. Pugh
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0262512823
Publisher: The MIT Press

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Building IBM, ISBN-13: 9780262512824, ISBN-10: 0262512823
Building IBM tells the story of that company -- how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. Emerson Pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new interpretation of the postwar era.Granted unrestricted access to IBM's archival records and with no constraints on the way he chose to treat the information they contained, Pugh dispels many widely held myths about IBM and its leaders and provides new insights on the origins and development of the computer industry.Pugh begins the story with Herman Hollerith's in

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