B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light rubbing and wear. "International Business Machines (IBM) , one of the world's largest companies, had a 62% share of the mainframe computer market in 1982. In the late 1970s the new personal computer industry was dominated by the Commodore PET, Atari 8-bit family, Apple II, Tandy Corporation's TRS-80, and various CP/M machines. With $150 mi... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a small format spiral bound book with illustrated cardstock covers. The book is in Very Good condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing, along with one crease to the top rear corner. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Commodore Plus/4 is a home computer released by Commodore International in 1984. The "Plus/4" name refers to the four-application ROM resident office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, database, and graphing) ; it was billed as "the productivity computer with software built-in." Internally, the P... View More...
B&W Illustrations; Group of four items with introductory / Sample material for a new program to "synthesize data on the efficiency of plant machinery...SUM (System Utilization Monitor) and markets or leases with its various attachments to transmit the performance data audibly or visibly). Two spiral bound manuals, one report with cardstock covers and a stapled spine a large fold out brochure and a three page typewritten introduction. At the time of this group of items were published - the company had just started in Santa Clara California and had already received at least one large contract fo... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Apple IIGS (styled as IIGS) , the fifth and most powerful of the Apple II family, is a 16-bit personal computer produced by Apple Computer, Inc. While featuring the Macintosh look and feel, and resolution and color similar to the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST, it remains compatible with earlier Apple II models. The "GS" in the name stands for "Graphics and Sound," referring to its enhanced multimedia hardware, especially its... View More...
This is a Pocket Folder / souvenir apparently given away during the week-long celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the company. The folder contains a large spiral bound celebratory calendar, and several laid-in cardstock fliers , including a short history, and information on the Cupertino Site Demo Center and the Cupertino Manufacturing Operations. The calendar, the folder and the fliers are all in very nice clean, bright condition. " The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto, California by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939, and initially produced a line of electronic te... View More...
Graphs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The book covers are mostly clean and bright. The text pages are mostly clean and bright but do have foxing to the edges of the text block. There is an inked stamped former owner's name on the front pastedown, rear endpaper and, the bottom edge of the text block. The dust jacket has several spots of rubbing, wear and a couple of tears to the edges and spine ends, along with some ground-in dirt and spotting. "Dynamical systems theory is an area of mathem... View More...
Graphs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name stamp on the front endpaper. Even as late as the early 1980's getting computers to work with (and understand correctly) how to do arithmetic problem solving was still not a sure thing. This book covers some new (to that point) theories of computer arithmetic and also the implementation of arithmetic on computers. "Central to this treatise is the concept of semimorphism. Properties... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The edges of the text block have some spots of foxing. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but does have some small edge nicks, tears and rubbing. "Pamela McCorduck traces the course of artificial intelligence, from its mythic beginnings to its sometimes frightening future. Drawing on her interviews with major figures in the... View More...
This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, a largely invisible but increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the emerging informatoin superhighway. William Mitchell makes extensive use of concrete, practical examples and illustrations in a technically well-grounded yet accessible examinaton of archi... View More...
This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book is still in its original shrinkwrap , and includes a letter from the Hewlett Packard Company, noting that it is special gift edition. "The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP, and stylized as hp) , or Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including cust... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This newspaper is in Very Good condition. The pages are noticeably toned, but generally clean. There is some beginning rippling to the front cover. The front page has one two inch tear to the crease and there is one ink scribble by the photo on the front page. Topics include: Varian buys Norton Division Camenzind Opens Firm to Design Custom IC's, SRI to evaluate impact of Advanced Materials, H-P sells Computer to retail Business, SMCDA reports decline in startups, expansions, and more. View More...
B&W Illustrations; This issue is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The newspaper has noticeable generalized toning and a couple of small spots of discoloration. The text pages are clean but toned. "The Bay Area electronics industries deserve a comprehensive network of communication. With over 600 companies in the Bay Area directly or indirectly related to the electronics field, a specific and informative electronics newspaper is vital - especially in our present period of economic turmoil." View More...
Graphs; This version of the book has a plastic spiral binding and plain cardstock covers. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued thus without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy includes a previous owner's inked name and address on the half title page. "The purposes of this book are to provide in a single reference the properties of silicon important to those who would use it as a semiconductor and to discuss at length several of the more important semiconductor technologies, such as crystal growing... View More...
Graphs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of several pages towards the end that appear to have been misfed during printing and are wrinkled. The dust jacket has some edge wear, rubbing and wear. "The traditional methods of storing information so that it may later be recalled are classification and indexing. The index has been in the form of subject headings, either printed in sequence on a page or typed on cards which are filed in sequence. Durin... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The white covers have some light ground-in dirt. There Is a faint remnant of a previous owner's grease pencil mark to the top front cover. There is one tiny nick to the bottom front spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. A previous owner's inked name has been crossed out on the copyright page and also the bottom edge of the text block. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several noticeable edge nicks, tears and smallish to small edge chips missing (mostly the to the spine ends). The covers have generalized rubbing. "This monograph originated with a course of lectures on information theory which I gave at Cornell Univeristy during the a... View More...