Digital state : the story of Minnesota's computing industry /
" Accounts of the early events of the computing industry--the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer--are well-told tales, and equally well-known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle history...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
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- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Minnesota Goes High-Tech
- 1. Philadelphia Story: Wartime Origins of Minnesota Computing
- 2. St. Paul Startup: Engineering Research Associates Builds a Pioneering Computer
- 3. Corporate Computing: Univac Creates a High-Tech Minnesota Industry
- 4. Innovation Machine: Control Data's Supercomputers, Services, and Social Vision
- 5. First Computer: Honeywell, Partnerships, and the Politics of Patents
- 6. Big Blue: Manufacturing and Innovation at IBM Rochester
- 7. Industrial Dynamics: Minnesota Embraces the Information Economy
- 8. High-Technology Innovation: Medical Devices and Beyond.