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ICL
This snapshot deals with ICL and its predecessors, ie
UK-based hardware and software developers.
It covers -
introduction
[under development]
the enterprise
ICL:
A Business & Technical History (Oxford: Clarendon
Press 1989) by Martin Campbell-Kelly is the definitive
history of the UK company.
There is a more panoramic view in John Hendry's Innovating
for Failure: Government Policy & the Early British
Computer Industry (Cambridge: MIT Press 1990), Jon
Agar's The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History
of the Computer (Cambridge: MIT Press 2003) and Tom
Kelly's The British Computing Industry: Crisis &
Development (London: Croom Helm 1987). Points of reference
are provided by The Computer Revolution in Canada:
Building National Technological Competence (Cambridge:
MIT Press 2001) by John Vardalas is a serviceable account
of Canada's computer industry.
Essays in The International Computer Software Industry:
A Comparative Study of Industry Evolution & Structure
(Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 1995) edited by David Mowery
are also of relevance.
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