Isbn: 9781591020349 - who invented the computer?: the legal battle that changed computing history (5 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. 463 pp. with bibliography, index. In 1973, Federal District Judge Earl R. Larson issued a ruling in a patent case that was to have profound and long-lasting implications for the then-dawning computer revolution. Against expectations, the judge ruled against Sperry Rand Corp, which claimed to hold the patent for the first computer---dubbed ENIAC--- and was demanding huge royalties on all electronic data-processing sales by Honeywell and other large competitors. The judge found that in fact ENIAC was not the first computer but was derived from an obscure computer---called the ABC--which had developed in the late thirties by a largely unknown Iowa State University professor. This work cenetrs in detail on this crucial trial.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. 415 pp. Fresh and clean copy in good condition. - Contents: A. Nothing but the Truth - Mauchly on the Stand - Mauchly in Deposition - Atanasoff as Witness - Mauchly before Atanasoff - Larson from the Bench - Who invented the computer? - B. The Court of Public Opinion - Breaking into Print - Other Voices - Lines in the Sand - The Matter of von Neumann - A Happy Convergence - The Public Eye - C. Closing Argument - As It Happened - Wrap-Up - Chronology of Key Events - References by Chapter ISBN 9781591020349 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 810 Hardcover with original dustjacket.…