A Computer Perspective

By the office of Charles & Ray Eames

Edited by Glen Fleck

Produced by Robert Staples

Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen

This is the original paperback book from the exhibit for IBM at the IBM Corporate Exhibit Center, New York, NY. Exhibit opened February 17, 1973.

A Computer Perspective is the first truly graphic history of the origin and development of the computer...This book will long remain a unique anthology of the great events that occur when dreamers and theorists can get together with engineers and inventors. (The Economist )

A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age sets out to...[place] the digital computer in its historical context, taking 1950 as its terminal date. By then, the digital computer revolution had been fully inaugurated with the first generation of modern stored-program computers. The book casts a wide net as it presents, mainly with pictures and captions, the many contributory ideas and developments that provide the foundation and background for the computer age...This is a book full of interesting pictures and quotations. It brings out the technical, human and social aspects of the development of computers in an imaginative way. Who could resist a book containing such fascinating information?--Antony Anderson (New Scientist )

The volume is a must for everyone interested in computer history and an important tool for anyone wanting to understand how the computer age started. --Heinz Zemanek, Science of Computer Programming

[This] book set a standard for the history of computing.--P. E. Ceruzzi (Computing Reviews )