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The computer comes of age: The people, the hardware, and the software (MIT Press series in the history of computing)
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[Closed] Added Books/Editions > [Done] Please add a different edition of the book: The Computer Comes of Age

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Paulo Costa Fonseca (paulocostafonseca) | 337 comments Please add a different edition of the book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

* Title: The computer comes of age: The people, the hardware, and the software

* Publisher: MIT Press

* Digitalized book in the Ineternet Archive website: https://archive.org/details/computerc...

* Book cover: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17jXq...

* Author: René Moreau

* ISBN: 0262131943

* Publication date: 1984

* Format: Hardcover

* Page count: 228

* Language: English

Thanks!


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Paulo Costa Fonseca (paulocostafonseca) | 337 comments *bump


message 3: by Bruno (last edited Oct 15, 2025 09:13AM) (new)

Bruno Rodrigues | 15090 comments I don't think archive can be used as a source, so, to make it easier, please share photos of your own of your own book (Frobtcover and Edition page, where is Publisher info, Publication date, ISBN, etc)

EDIT: Also, this book (with this ISBN) is already in GR, so I need to understand, is this an Alternate Cover Edition, or does the book has an overcoat?


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Paulo Costa Fonseca (paulocostafonseca) | 337 comments Hi Bruno,

I don't have my own. I was reading it from the Internet Archive webiste, they have a lot of old books digitized from physical copies, normaly from public libraries, and allow you to read them from there.

And this one specifically it's not easy to find, so I was reading the edition that they have there.

But now that you mention being a book overcoat/jacket, looks like that in fact it is, I went again to the internet archive website to check the book and going to page 2, it's possible to see that it is a book jacket and it's even possible to see in the digitized image the scotch tape glueing it to the book...

So I don't know if this qualifies as an alternate cover or not...
But if not, no worries, I can just use the edition that's already on goodreads with the other cover.


message 5: by Bruno (last edited Oct 15, 2025 10:37AM) (new)

Bruno Rodrigues | 15090 comments That's what I think too, that is an overcoat.
I was hoping you would have the (pshysical) book so we could clear that out, but, without a valid source to confirm this, I preffer not to mess with the book record, creating an ACE and moving the ISBN.
I'm closing this request then, without action


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Paulo Costa Fonseca (paulocostafonseca) | 337 comments ok, no worries.

And thanks again! :)


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