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You’ll likely want to learn how to retrieve books from storage<\/a> and use ILL<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most commonly assigned<\/a> textbook on databases is Ramez Almasri’s Fundamentals of Database Systems<\/em><\/a>, now in its seventh edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C.J. Date’s Introduction to Database Systems<\/em><\/a>, last updated in 2004, is a classic text and includes helpful introductions to many database concepts. You might also be interested in Date’s Relational Database Dictionary<\/em> <\/a>(2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Wired<\/em> came Datamation<\/em>: the leading popular magazine about computing from the ’60s through the ’80s. Looking at back-issues is a great way to understand a technology in its context, and you can do that on the Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Byte<\/em> was a widely read magazine about personal computing in the ’80s and ’90s. Its back issues, like Datamation<\/em>‘s, are available online<\/a>. (The same site offers complete runs of Macworld<\/em> and MacUser<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may find it helpful to look at scanned IBM manuals<\/a>. For a history of IBM, see Emerson Pugh, Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and its Technology<\/em> (1995)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a history of the software industry, see Martin Campbell-Kelly’s From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry<\/a><\/em> (2003).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Cortada has a useful bibliography of the computing industry<\/a>, with an emphasis on computers’ business applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get a sense of how popular media covered technical developments, I find Factiva<\/a> the most useful database. Be sure to use the advanced search interface so that you can extend the range of your search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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