[PDF] The Personal Computer Handbook eBook

Author : Oliver Montenbruck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662029820

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This long-awaited new edition of Montenbruck and Pfleger's successful book now includes chapters on perturbation calculations and on the calculation of physical ephemerides of the major planets and the sun. The book provides the reader with numerous programs and instructions for time and date calculation and for treating the two-body problem. Each chapter is carefully structured according to topic and closes with the listing of a relevant program, thereby facilitating its use as a practical handbook. The necessary astronomical and numerical fundamentals are also included in the text. The accompanying diskette has equally been completely revised.

Author : Donald B. Lemke
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736896504

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"In graphic novel format, tells the story of how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed the personal computer"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Michael Swaine
Publisher : Pragmatic Bookshelf
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1680503529

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In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution. What they did was invent the personal computer: not just a new device, but a watershed in the relationship between man and machine. This is their story. Fire in the Valley is the definitive history of the personal computer, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, written by two veteran computer writers who were there from the start. Working at InfoWorld in the early 1980s, Swaine and Freiberger daily rubbed elbows with people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they were creating the personal computer revolution. A rich story of colorful individuals, Fire in the Valley profiles these unlikely revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, such as Ed Roberts of MITS, Lee Felsenstein at Processor Technology, and Jack Tramiel of Commodore, as well as Jobs and Gates in all the innocence of their formative years. This completely revised and expanded third edition brings the story to its completion, chronicling the end of the personal computer revolution and the beginning of the post-PC era. It covers the departure from the stage of major players with the deaths of Steve Jobs and Douglas Engelbart and the retirements of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer; the shift away from the PC to the cloud and portable devices; and what the end of the PC era means for issues such as personal freedom and power, and open source vs. proprietary software.

Author : Sharon Gallagher
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780896595040

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Features models, diagrams, and charts that illustrate the workings of the keyboard, memory, disk drive, and printer

Author : Paul Freiberger
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780071358958

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Definitive account of how the PC came to transform the world today- and will shape the century ahead.

Author : Robert C. Alexander
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475916604

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Ask consumers and users what names they associate with the multibillion dollar personal computer market, and they will answer IBM, Apple, Tandy, or Lotus. The more knowledgable of them will add the likes of Microsoft, Ashton-Tate, Compaq, and Borland. But no one will say Xerox. Fifteen years after it invented personal computing, Xerox still means "copy." Fumbling the Future tells how one of America's leading corporations invented the technology for one of the fastest-growing products of recent times, then miscalculated and mishandled the opportunity to fully exploit it. It is a classic story of how innovation can fare within large corporate structures, the real-life odyssey of what can happen to an idea as it travels from inspiration to implementation. More than anything, Fumbling the Future is a tale of human beings whose talents, hopes, fears, habits, and prejudices determine the fate of our largest organizations and of our best ideas. In an era in which technological creativity and economic change are so critical to the competitiveness of the American economy, Fumbling the Future is a parable for our times.