Chapter 1
Tinder for the Fire

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM

The personal computer sprang to life in the mid-1970s, but its historical roots reach back to the giant electronic brains of the 1950s, and well before that to the thinking machines of 19th-century fiction.

..................Content has been hidden....................

You can't read the all page of ebook, please click here login for view all page.
Reset