The IBM century : creating the IT revolution / edited by Jeffrey R. Yost.

Contributor Yost, Jeffrey R.

Imprint:[Los Alamitos, CA] : EEE Computer Society, c2011.

Descriptionx, 282 p. : ill., ports ; 28 cm.

Bibliography Note:Includes annotyated bibliographical references (p.232-265) and index.

Note:"Herman Hollerith pioneered punch card tabulation technology, and in 1911 this became the centerpiece of the new corporation International Business Machines (IBM). Over the past century IBM has transformed how informaton is recorded, calculated, and processed -- forever changing business, science, engineering, government, and leisure. This volume brings together memoirs of key IBM engineers and managers of the past 100 years who led IBM to supremacy in digital computing and software, and details punch card tabulation, IBM's entrance into computing, the transformative IBM hardware and software (FORTRAN, Sabre, IMS) that changed the world" -- p.4 of cover

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