Readme: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines

＂README offers a readable half-century of bookish history that explains how computers became popular and pervasive＂-- Provided by publisher.

W. Patrick McCray is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Originally trained as a scientist, he is the author or editor of eight books. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Physical Society (APS).