Sheila H. Troppe
Brock, Gerald.
The U.S. Computer Industry
. Cambridge: Ballinger Ballinger Publishing Co., 1975. More technical in nature and oriented towards economics.
Burnham, David.
The Rise of the Computer State
. New York: Random House, 1983. An extremely interesting book about the dark side of computers-including surveillance, data bases, and the potential for the misuse of computers.
Fishman, Katharine.
The Computer Establishment
. New York: Harper and Row, 1983. An extremely thorough look at the computer industry with a focus on IBM in the sixties and seventies.
Foy, Nancy.
The Sun Never Sets on IBM
. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1975. A look at IBM’s overseas operations.
Goldstein, Herman.
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. Computer history through the forties.
Halacy, D.S.
Computers: The Machines We Think With
. New York: Harper and Row, 1962. A history of computers from the abacus through the first and second generation computers of the fifties and early sixties.
Peters, Thomas.
In Search of Excellence
. New York: Harper and Row, 1982. A fascinating study of successful corporations and their techniques. Just out-I found it in a bookstore and couldn’t put it down.
Rodgers, William.
Think
. New York: Stein and Day, 1969. Everything you’d ever want to know about the Watsons and IBM from the beginning through to the sixties.
Watson, Thomas.
A Business and Its Beliefs
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. An inside look at IBM through an interesting series of essays written by the second president of IBM.
Wulforst, Harry.
Breakthrough to the Computer Age
. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1982. A look at computers from 1937 through the first electronic computers. Very thorough and informative. Has some interesting pictures