ISBN: 9780262161473

Product DescriptNo company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admirat, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM.Building IBM tells the story of that com… Mehr…

Product DescriptNo company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admirat, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM.Building IBM tells the story of that company-how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the informat processing industry. Emerson Pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new interpretat of the post era. Granted unrestricted access to IBMs archival records and with no constraints on the way he chose to treat the informat 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 Holleriths invent of punched-card machines used for tabulating the U.S. Census of 1890, showing how Holleriths invents and the business he established provided the primary basis for IBM. He tells why Hollerith merged his company in 1911 with two other companies to create the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which changed its name in 1924 to Internatal Business Machines. Thomas J. Watson, who was hired in 1914 to manage the merged companies, exhibited remarkable technological insight and leadership-in addit to his widely heralded salesmanship-to build Holleriths business into a virtual monopoly of the rapidly growing punched-card equipment business. The fascinating inside story of the transfer of authority from the senior Watson to his older son, Thomas J. Watson Jr., and the companys rapid dominat of the computer industry occupy the latter half of the book. In two final chapters, Pugh examines condits and events of the 1970s and 1980s and identifies the underlying causes of the severe probems IBM experienced in the 1990s.About the AuthorAn internatally recognized leader in magnetics and computer memory technologies, Emerson W. Pugh is a member of the research staff at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights and author of the widely used text,Principles of Electricity and Magnetism. Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Bestes Angebot, [LT: BestOffer], Binding: Hardcover, Publication Date: 16-03-1995, Sprache: English, Publication Year: 16-03-1995, Country of Origin: USA, United States, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Inches: 1.21X9.28X6.36, ISBN-10: 0262161478, ISBN-13: 9780262161473, SKU: SONG0262161478, Buchtitel: Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology, The MIT Press<

1995, ISBN: 0262161478

[EAN: 9780262161473], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The MIT Press 1995-03-16], Item is in good condition. Some moderate creases and wear. This item may not come with CDs or additional pa… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780262161473], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: The MIT Press 1995-03-16], Item is in good condition. Some moderate creases and wear. This item may not come with CDs or additional parts including access codes for textbooks. This may not have a dust jacket. Might be an ex-library copy and contain writing/highlighting. Photos are stock pictures and not of the actual item., Books<