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The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer Georges Ifrah
Publisher: Wiley

The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to Quantum Computing gives a grand title to a grand subject, and Ifrah makes good on his promise of universality by leaping far back in time and spanning all the inhabited continents.If his scope is vast, his Readers will hang on the stories of 19th-century inventors converging on multiplication machines and other, more general "engines", and better understand the roots of biological and quantum computation. ISBN 031326810X; Ifrah, Georges (2000). The.Universal.History.of.Computing.From.the. The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer. Indexes in Science and Technology). As calculators are miniaturized, someday devices that are as small as credit cards may perform the same .. Portsmouth, NH: Greenwood Press. Giant Brains, or Machines That Think. Retrieved March 18, 2009, from The Museum of HP Calculators Web site: http://www.hpmuseum.org/sliderul.htm. Also, modern calculators are more portable than most computers, though some personal digital assistants (PDAs) are comparable in size to hand held calculators.