Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry

by Thomas J. Misa

Book Overview

Accounts of the early events of the computing industry--the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer--are well-told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle history--with deep roots in Minnesota. From the end of World War II through the 1970s, Minnesota was home to the first computing-centered industrial district in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816683328
• ISBN13: 9780816683321
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"