From Mainframes to Smartphones
Martin Campbell‐Kelly, Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz · Harvard University Press eBooks · 2015
This compact history traces the computer industry from 1950s mainframes, through establishment of standards beginning in 1965, to personal computing in the 1980s and the Internet’s explosive growth since 1995. Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel Garcia-Swartz describe a steady trend toward miniaturization and explain its consequences.