Targeting the computer: government support and international competition
Targeting the computer: government support and international competition
Blue magic: the people, power and politics behind the IBM PC
Blue magic: the people, power and politics behind the IBM PC
ICL: a business and technical history
ICL: a business and technical history
The computer in the United States: from laboratory to market, 1930 to 1960
The computer in the United States: from laboratory to market, 1930 to 1960
The trouble with computers
Computer: a history of the information machine
Computer: a history of the information machine
A bibliographic guide to the history of computer applications, 1950–1990
A bibliographic guide to the history of computer applications, 1950–1990
Information technology as business history: issues in the history and management of computers
Information technology as business history: issues in the history and management of computers
Data Processing Technology and Economics
Data Processing Technology and Economics
Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production and Distribution of Information in the United States
Information Processing in the United States: A Quantitative Summary
Information Processing in the United States: A Quantitative Summary
The History of Computing in the History of Technology
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Commercial Applications of the Digital Computer in American Corporations, 1945-1995
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
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This article argues that it would have become very difficult for computers to have come into being, and subsequently be adopted by businesses, if the United States economy were not large and healthy. The author demonstrates that there were characteristics of the economy that facilitated the development and use of computers in the United States, beginning in the 1950s and continuing down to the present