Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray, Computer: A History of the Information Machine (New York: Basic Books, 1996)

Introduction
 

PART I. BEFORE THE COMPUTER

1. When Computers Were People

2. The Mechanical Office

3. Babbage's Dream Comes True
 

PART II. CREATING THE COMPUTER

4. Inventing the Computer

5. The Computer Becomes a Business Machine

6. The Manufacturing of the Mainframe: The Rise and Fall of IBM
 

PART III. INNOVATION AND EXPANSION

7. Real Time: Reaping the Whirlwind

8. Software

9. New Modes of Computing
 

PART IV. GETTING PERSONAL

10. The Shaping of the Personal Computer

11. The Shift to Software

12. From the World Brain to the World Wide Web