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IEEE Annals Editor in Chief Lars Heide talks about what's in this issue, including two articles on the development of computer use in Chile and Yugoslavia. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Industrial production of office machines emerged in the 1880s and grew extensively until the Second World War. Although sales and applications of punched-card machines expanded in the interwar years, the key-set office machine industry lost dynamics and ultimately collapsed. The lack of scale and scope improvements in the development of key-set office machines was the major reason for this sharp contrast. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What does the Ford mass-production story have to do with the history of computing? Everything. More than half a century before Toyota's just-in-time inventory captured hearts and minds around the industrial world, Ford was using state-of-the-art information technology to implement a system of networked manufacturing. Historians of computing should continue to produce work about work, particularly work in the predigital age. Practice matters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses various reports published within the issue including one by David Alan Grier on the college experiences of English inventor Charles Babbage, one by Christopher McDonald on U.S. Department of Defense software development standards, and one by Zbigniew Stachniak on the joint development project of the MF7114 microprocessor by high technology companies Intel and Microsystems International.