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The early computer industry: limitations of scale and scope

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1. Verfasser:	Gandy, Anthony 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2013
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1950-1972 Computer industry / History Geschichte Computerindustrie
Online-Zugang:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Beschreibung:	XVII, 348 S. graph. Darst. 23 cm
ISBN:	9780230389106 0230389104

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adam_text	Titel: The early computer industry Autor: Gandy, Anthony Jahr: 2013 Contents List of Figures viii List of Tables x Preface xii Acknowledgements xiv A Note on Referencing Styles xvi Part I Theory and Context 1 Historiography 3 Introduction 3 The structure of this study 4 Studying the electronics and computer industries 5 2 Scope, Scale, Concentric Diversification and the Black Box 10 Economies of scope and the concentrically diversified enterprise 10 The life cycle of market entry - getting into the early computer industry 15 The early computer market 19 Intercepting IBM s strategy 30 Failure in the British computer hardware industry 34 Part II US Electronics Companies in the Computer Sector 1950-72 3 RCA 41 Early RCA 41 RCA s post-war expansion 43 RCA and computers 45 Part 1: The experimental phase 45 Part 2: Structured entry 48 Part 3: Consolidation phase 61 Exit from the computer sector 73 Strategy failure: the RCA Series and the Spectra 70 demise 77 Conclusions 84 4 General Electric 88 The post-war General Electric 88 GE in the computer market 90 Part 1: The experimental phase 90 Part 2: Structured entry 93 Second generation computers: taking on IBM 1960-65 97 The policy of retrenchment 111 Part 3: Consolidation phase 112 Conclusions 118 Part III UK Electronics Companies in the Computer Sector 1950-68 5 The Ferranti Company 123 Development of the company 123 Building a capital electronics capability 124 The imperative to find a new market 124 Ferranti and the computer industry 126 Part 1: The experimental phase 126 Part 2: Structured entry 138 Part 3: Consolidation phase 149 Conclusions 161 Postscript 163 6 Electrical and Musical Industries - Computing on a Shoestring 164 EMI s formation 164 The growth of electronics at EMI 165 Changing structure 167 EMI and the early computer industry 170 Part 1: The experimental phase 170 Part 2: Structured entry 174 EMI post computers 185 Conclusions 187 7 English Electric - A Failure of Strategy 189 The company 190 English Electric and the computer market 193 Part 1: The experimental phase 193 Part 2: Structured entry 194 Part 3: Consolidation phase 201 A forced wedding - take over by ICT 205 Conclusions 209 Part IV The Business Machines Firms - What Did They Do Differently? 8 Strategies and Organisations of IBM and ICT 213 IBM . 215 IBM and computing 220 Part 1: The experimental phase 220 Part 2: Structured entry 225 Part 3: Consolidation phase 229 Forcing out the electronics companies - the System/370 236 Anti-competitive? 238 ICT 245 ICT in the computer era 246 Part 1: The experimental phase 246 Part 2: Structured entry 248 Part 3: Consolidation phase 253 ICT compared to the British electronics companies 260 9 The Nimble Survivors: Sperry Rand, NCR, Burroughs, CDC and Honeywell 265 Punched card rivals - Sperry Rand 266 Consolidation phase 272 The accounting machines companies - NCR and Burroughs 275 The start-ups - CDC and DEC 288 An outsider: Honeywell 292 Consolidation phase 294 Concluding remarks 296 10 Conclusions: Concentric Diversification, Resource Allocation and Government Policy 298 Market entry: incentives to innovate and the first phase product strategy 298 Product and marketing strategies 300 The position of commercial computer technology within the firm 305 Competition for resources 308 Software development 309 Government policy and the British failure 311 Economies of scope and the concentrically diversified enterprise 315 Notes 316 References 336 Index 342
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