Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Due to the extensive research done by the author, the book drags on at times. That isn't necessarily bad.

Happy with purchase I am interested in a part of the history of it. I am not an avid reader but overall it is good

Disappointed in Princeton's press with this one. The editor should have corralled it down to about 1/4 of this length. Sweeping generalizations about business practices and mind-numbing quantities of sales figures from a century ago. Reasonably good descriptions of the old styles of machines, and great photographs, but this book drones on and on, and barely touches on either the electromechanical technologies or the business use cases in question. A more representative title would be: "Ruminations on American Office Equipment Firms".