British Commercial Computer Digest

British Commercial Computer Digest
Author: Sam Stuart
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014-05-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1483148580

British Commercial Computer Digest, Eleventh Edition lists the current computers available in Britain including the peripheral equipments used either on-line or off-line. It also gives information on manufacturers and selling organizations of the listed computers. This book also presents a table of memory storage capacity and types of the computers, as well as computers installed in Great Britain and their users. Lastly, lists of all world-wide known computers with number installed are also provided. This book gives sensible guidance on the computers in Great Britain, viewed through professional eyes, under increasingly complex conditions.

British Commercial Computer Digest

British Commercial Computer Digest
Author: R. H. Williams
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-05-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1483154521

British Commercial Computer Digest, Tenth Edition presents information on computers and peripheral equipment available in Britain. A list of computer manufacturers and selling organizations is included, along with all worldwide known computers installed as at the end of 1968. A table of speeds, memory storage capacity, and storage type of the computers is also presented. This book is divided into nine sections and begins by presenting a table of speeds of computers available in Britain, followed by information on manufacturers and vendors and their respective addresses. Computers available in Britain are then listed in alphabetical order, as well as peripheral equipment used either online or offline with the computers; memory storage capacity and storage type of the computers; computers installed and on order in Britain; and worldwide known computers installed as at the end of 1968. This monograph will be a useful resource for users, manufacturers, and vendors of computers and computer peripherals.

The Early Computer Industry

The Early Computer Industry
Author: A. Gandy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2012-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230389112

Uses case studies to explore why large scale electronics failed to win a leadership position in the early computer industry and why IBM, a firm with a heritage in the business machines industry, succeeded. The cases cover both the US and the UK industry focusing on electronics giants GE, RCA, English Electric, EMI and Ferranti.

Technological Diffusion and the Computer Revolution

Technological Diffusion and the Computer Revolution
Author: Paul Stoneman
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1976-01-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521209458

Monograph describing the computerization movement and experience in the UK - investigates computer usage and its implications for technological change and for labour force, and analyses environmental aspects, production costs, etc. Diagrams, flow chart, references and statistical tables.

Organisational Capability and Competitive Advantage

Organisational Capability and Competitive Advantage
Author: Charles Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135192855

First Published in 1992. This is a collection of eight articles covering different elements of organisational capability and competitive advantage. The areas included are managerial enterprise, Corporate Strategy and accounting, the influence of the Trade Mark, a look at the marketing case study of the Ferranti Group, history of Japan's Post-war steel industry, American graduate business schools and responses to market for corporate control in 1950s Britain.

How to Find Out About Engineering

How to Find Out About Engineering
Author: S. A. J. Parsons
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 148315968X

How to Find Out About Engineering provides a guide to sources of information on engineering and its various branches. Topics include branches of engineering, careers in engineering, sources of engineering-related information, libraries, handbooks, patents, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and periodical literature. Engineering organizations as well as education and training for careers in engineering are also considered. This volume consists of 20 chapters; the first of which introduces the reader to jobs available in the engineering industry, along with guides and sources of information on careers. The discussion then turns to sources of information on engineering such as bibliographies, reference works, publishers' and booksellers' catalogs, government publications, and industrial liaison centers in Britain. The chapters that follow focus on libraries and other sources of information that are available to engineers and engineering students, including handbooks, standards, patents, and technical drawings and designs. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, theses, and translations are also covered. In addition, the book includes chapters on the history and biography of engineering as well as different branches of engineering, from mechanical to chemical, aeronautical, and agricultural engineering. This book will be of interest to all persons engaged in the engineering profession or are contemplating on entering the profession.

Deconstructing the Computer

Deconstructing the Computer
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2005-10-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 030909254X

Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management continue to promise further gains in productivity, a phenomenon often referred to as the New Economy. To better understand this phenomenon, the National Academies Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) has convened a series of workshops and commissioned papers on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy. This major workshop, entitled Deconstructing the Computer, brought together leading industrialists and academic researchers to explore the contribution of the different components of computers to improved price-performance and quality of information systems. The objective was to help understand the sources of the remarkable growth of American productivity in the 1990s, the relative contributions of computers and their underlying components, and the evolution and future contributions of the technologies supporting this positive economic performance.

The European Computer Users Handbook 1968/69

The European Computer Users Handbook 1968/69
Author: Sam Stuart
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2014-05-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1483146693

The European Computer Users Handbook 1968/69, Sixth Edition is a handbook of computers and computer peripherals which could be used in Europe. Details of computers and peripheral devices, including analog computers, calculators, and data transmission equipment, are presented. This book is organized into 10 sections and begins by giving information on digital computers that could be used in Europe based on recommendations by Computer Consultants Limited. Comments on the particular computer manufacturer concerned are included and the particular item of equipment is described. Digital computers, electronic calculators, analog computers, peripheral equipment, and data transmission equipment available in Europe are then listed. The names and addresses of computer manufacturers and selling organizations concerned with computers used in Europe are also provided. Two tables are given: one for computer installations by number, import value, and home built value in sixteen European countries, and another for computer installations in the United States. This monograph will be a valuable resource for both computer users and manufacturers.