Island tinkerers : innovation and transformation in the making of Taiwan's computing industry

Honghong Tinn

"How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In this book, Honghong Tinn tells the critical history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan, including engineers, technologists, technocrats, computer users, and engineers-turned-entrepreneurs, helped transform the country with their hands-on engagement with computers. Rather than engaging in wholesale imitation of US sources, she explains, these technologists tinkered with imported computing technology and experimented with manufacturing their own versions, resulting in their own brand of successful innovation."

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Year of publication:	[2025]
Authors:	Tinn, Honghong
Publisher:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press
Subject:	Computerindustrie \| Computer industry \| Branchenentwicklung \| Sector development \| Taiwan \| Geschichte 1950-2021
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [content.schweitzer-online.de]

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Extent:	VIII, 429 Seiten Illustrationen, 1 Karte
Series:	History of computing
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 289-415 Enthält ein Register Introduction -- Part I. Embracing electronics, 1950s -- 1 Network reset : restoring a university for engineering -- 2 Negotiating technical aid : "immediate and direct" results of science and engineering education -- Part II. Emulating humming machines, 1960s -- Tinkering with a technological system : mainframe computers from afar -- 4 Grappling with machines : late adoption of computers in Taiwan's military alliance with the United States -- 5 Manufacturing hope : explorations in making minicomputers and calculators from scratch -- Part III. Technology inscribed, 1970s-present -- 6 Assembling electronics : women's memories, men's factories -- 7 Mass-producing calculators : solderers, engineers, and entrepreneurs -- 8 Incompatible computer dreams : contested computer exports to the United States -- 9 The republic of computers : from scoundrels to Asian heroes -- TSMC and the new geopolitics of the 21st century -- Epilogue.
ISBN:	978-0-262-54938-7 ; 978-0-262-38026-3 ; 978-0-262-38027-0
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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