A history of modern computing (1998)

Paul Ceruzzi offers an authoritative architectural retrospective charting the evolution of computing from post-war mainframe behemoths to the rise of personal microcomputers and workstations. Drawing upon extensive technical archives, he meticulously examines how innovations in core memory, semiconductor logic, and modular bus design enabled seismic generational shifts across the computing industry. It serves as an indispensable macro-level narrative, contextualising how hardware breakthroughs repeatedly disrupted established technological and economic orders.