The Early Computer Industry: Limitations of Scale and Scope

By Anthony Gandy

Uses case studies to explore why large scale electronics failed to win a leadership position in the early computer industry and why IBM, a firm with a heritage in the business machines industry, succeeded. The cases cover both the US and the UK industry focusing on electronics giants GE, RCA, English Electric, EMI and Ferranti.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230389104
• ISBN13: 9780230389106
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.7"