Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age, by Paul E. Ceruzzi, The MIT Press, 1989, 27{) pages (illustrated) G. Pascal Zachary* San Francisco, California Contemporary life provides many examples of the pervasiveness of computers. These machines balance the books of business, engineer complex stock trades, discern the causes of car crashes, provide surgeons with a change to practice an operation - all this and much more. It is no surprise, then, that the "universal" machine also was (and remains) an essential ingredient in the making of air and space travel . What is surprising, though, is the degree to which the quest for flight has shaped the course of computing. This is the subject of Paul Ceruzzi's Beyond the Limits : Flight Enters the Computer Age. In this valuable and elegantly written book, Mr. Ceruzzi, a leading computer historian and Associate Curator at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, provides the first comprehensive history of the influence of aerospace technology on the computer . This influence has been considerable . In the years following World War II, writes Mr. Ceruzzi, "the aerospace community became a key agent in bringing the digital computer out
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Beyond the limits: flight enters the computer age
Zachary, G. Pascal
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