List of tables
List of figures
Prologue
Acknowledgements
Historiography
Scope, scale, concentric diversification and the black box
RCA and the electronic data processing business
Consolidation phase : third generation computing and the second big push
General Electric and the commercial data processing market
Electrical and musical industries
English electric
Strategies and organisations of ibm and ict
IBM's other competitors
Conclusions : concentric diversification versus market specialisation and the problem of resource allocation.
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The early computer industry : limitations of scale and scope by Anthony Gandy. ISBN 9780230389106. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
