Fire in the Mind focuses on one decade - the 1970s, and the computer revolution set forth by the thousands involved in that industry whose ideas seeded everything done with computers today. The book provides a history of calculating devices that eventually led to the creation of electromechanical computers in the early 20th century, and then on to defining how computers were seen in the 1950's - all leading up to the amazing decade of computer ideas spawned by the microprocessor. Over 250 companies from around the world were thoroughly researched for their contributions to the computers we...
Fire in the Mind focuses on one decade - the 1970s, and the computer revolution set forth by the thousands involved in that industry whose ideas seede...