ICL : a business and technical history
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
ICL : a business and technical history
Clarendan Press , Oxford University Press, 1989
Available at / 29 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The history of ICL is synonymous with the history of the British computer industry. The company was formed by a series of mergers in response to the increasing market dominance of the large American corporations, particularly IBM. The struggles between these two giants, and the inherent problems and implications for government-industry relations of competing with US multi-nationals are examined in detail in Martin Campbell-Kelly's wide-ranging study.
Tracing the technical history of the company and the evolution of its computers from the early punch-card machines of the 1880s to the present day, the book also considers the concerns of technological change, the economics of research and development, and current product-strategy issues, making it essential reading for business students as well as computer professionals.
Table of Contents
- Hollerith and the origins, 1880-1907
- The British Tabulating Machine Company, 1907-1919
- Manufacturing at home, the 1920s
- Heyday of the punched-card machine industry, the 1930s
- An interlude: the second World War, 1939-1945
- Pent-up demand, 1945-1949
- Electronic machines, 1950-1954
- Computers and the merger, 1955-1958
- The decline of the tabulator, 1959-1961
- Negotiations and mergers, 1961-1963
- The response to the IBM system/360, 1964-1965
- Government relations and the formation of ICL, 1964-1968
- ICL and the new range, 1968-1972
- Government launching aid for the new range, 1973-1975
- Rapid growth in a changing market, 1975-1979
- Convergence, the 1980s
- Summing up: ICL and the evolving information business
- Notes
- Appendix 1 The IBM-TMC agreements
- Appendix 2 List of directors
- Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
