Contents

1. Computers—The Machines We Think With 1

2. The Computer’s Past 18

3. How Computers Work 48

4. Computer Cousins—Analog and Digital 72

5. The Binary Boolean Bit 96

6. The Electronic Brain 121

7. Uncle Sam’s Computers 147

8. The Computer in Business and Industry 171

9. The Computer and Automation 201

10. The Academic Computer 219

11. The Road Ahead 251

COMPUTERS—THE MACHINES WE THINK WITH

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