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CONTENTS
Before Computers: Mechanical Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
First Computers: Big, Slow, and Amazing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Computer Families: Industry was Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Let 100 Flowers Bloom: Special and Unusual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Crucial Dilemma: To Copy or To Invent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Supercomputers: Testing Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
