The Computer Industry.The Computer Industry Jeffrey R. Yost Greenwood Greenwood. 1 City (1990 pop. 26,265), Johnson co., central Ind.; settled 1822, inc. as a city 1960. A residential suburb of Indianapolis, Greenwood is in a retail shopping area. Manufactures include motor vehicle parts and metal products. Press PO Box 5007, Westport Westport, residential town (1990 pop. 24,407), Fairfield co., SW Conn., on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Saugatuck River; settled 1645–50, inc. 1835. It serves as a popular residence for New York City commuters. Westport has a summer theater. , CT 06881-5007 0313328447 $49.95 1-800-225-5800 www.greenwood.com Hard to believe today, but computers were once a military and scientific tool of a select minority of government and scientific elites in the 1940s: now it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have a part of everyday life. THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY provides an excellent survey of the computer in American industry, considering the economic, social, political and historical influences on its evolution up to modern times. From punch cards A storage medium made of thin cardboard stock that holds data as patterns of punched holes. Each of the 80 or 96 columns holds one character. The holes are punched by a keypunch machine or card punch peripheral and are fed into the computer by a card reader. to the first digital computer companies, Yost provides a clear explanation of the changes and the computer's quick evolution for students of technological or social history. |
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