Just forty years ago, there wasn't a single computer in the world. Today, there are millions, and they touch the lives of every one of us.
Like most revolutionary inventions, the computer was the culmination of a long chain of technological developments, beginning with the invention of the abacus five thousand years ago.
Now, Bit by Bit tells the whole computer story for the first time—from grooves in the dirt and beads on a frame to today's superfast computers. Entertaining, comprehensive, and visually stunning, Bit by Bit brings this incredible technology within the grasp of us all.
But Bit by Bit is much more than a story of machines; it is also about the brilliant, forward-looking, and often eccentric men and women who have shaped the computer's history—from Wilhelm Schickard, the obscure German professor who invented the first mechanical calculator in 1623; to Charles Babbage, the debonair nineteenth-century genius whose Analytical Engine came within an inch of being a full-fledged computer; to Stephen Wozniak, the young electronics wizard who founded Silicon Valley's Apple Computer Company.
With magnificent photos culled from around the world, and a superbly written text, Bit by Bit is both a guided tour of the world of the computer and an absorbing account of its evolution.
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