books.google.co.uk - This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late 1940s from a specialized scientific instrument to a commercial...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_History_of_Modern_Computing.html?id=x1YESXanrgQC&q=computer+industry&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA History of Modern Computing
