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Joy Lisi Rankin

A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin

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April 2019, no. 410
Joshua Specht reviews 'A People’s History of Computing in the United States' by Joy Lisi Rankin

According to most accounts, the history of computing is a triumph of enterprise. This story starts in the 1950s and 1960s with commercial mainframe computers that, one stack of punch-cards at a time, assumed business tasks ranging from managing airline reservations to calculating betting odds ...

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