This page is a listing of the books on the subject of History of Computing in our library, which is available for use by trainees who attend our
public training courses.
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TITLE
| | Free as in Freedom
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 0-596-00287-4
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Sam Williams
| | PUBLISHER
| | O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
| | PUBLISHED
| | 2002
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 3 and 4 [about levels]
| | WHC Favourite
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| SYNOPSIS |
Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique ... more
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TITLE
| | Introduction to Electronic Computers
| | EDITION
| | 2nd
| | ISBN
| | 0-07-015821-5
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Gordon B. Davis
| | PUBLISHER
| | McGraw-Hill
| | PUBLISHED
| | 1971
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 2 and 3 [about levels]
| | This book is no longer in print
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| SYNOPSIS |
- Historical development of computers
- Uses for computers
- computer arithmetic and data representation
- Internal operations and storage in a computer
- The programming of a computer
- Program modification
- ... more
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TITLE
| | Boo Hoo: A Dot Com Story
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 0-09-941837-1
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Charles Drazin, Erik Portanger, Ernst Malmsten
| | PUBLISHER
| | Arrow Books
| | PUBLISHED
| | 2002
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 1 to 5 [about levels]
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| SYNOPSIS |
'Such a dazzling version of the boo phenomenon that as readers turn the pages they will be rooting for the company to survive even though they know the story ends in disaster.' The Sunday Times'boo hoo ... more
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TITLE
| | Computer Archaeology
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 0-85263-877-9
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Gary Lock, John Wilcock
| | PUBLISHER
| | Shire Publications Ltd.
| | PUBLISHED
| | 1987
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 2 [about levels]
| | This book is no longer in print
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| SYNOPSIS |
This book is a concise introduction to the relatively new subject of computer archaeology; the application of computing techniques to archaeological problems. The first part includes an introduction to ... more
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TITLE
| | Cathedral & the Bazaar, The
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 1-56592-724-9
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Eric S. Raymond
| | PUBLISHER
| | O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
| | PUBLISHED
| | 1999
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 4 [about levels]
| | This edition has been replaced
| | Order current edition from amazon.co.uk
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| SYNOPSIS |
"This is how we did it." --Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel
It all started with a series of odd statistics. The leading challenger to Microsoft's stranglehold on the computer industry is an ... more
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TITLE
| | Just For Fun
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 1-58799-080-6
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | David Diamond, Linus Torvalds
| | PUBLISHER
| | Harper Business
| | PUBLISHED
| | 2001
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 3 [about levels]
| | This edition has been replaced
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| SYNOPSIS |
In this witty and engrossing narrative, Linus Torvalds, the brilliant mastermind behind the latest Internet revolution, in collaboration with writer David Diamond, chronicles his transformation from a ... more
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| Total of 6 books listed out of a total of 609 books |
