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 ... 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
- ... 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. ... 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.com
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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 ... 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 ... more
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| Total of 6 books listed out of a total of 609 books |
