Philbrick?

Sat, Oct 13th John Allain wrote: Since I didn't know the answer I asked someone who was a Philbrick employee from 1949 to 1966. "Hi, Doug: The standard rationale was that the purpose of the spelling was to differentiate between machines that did computing and people who were employed to do so. For example, my wife's roommate, in the early days of her post-college life, had a math degree and was employed at MIT's Whirlwind lab as a "computer", doing computing tasks that were too complex for the digital machines then existing. However, I think that George really invented the term (a) because it was attention-getting, (b) to differentiate his product from the competition, and (c) because he always liked to do things a little differently and more creatively than the next guy." ========================================= Doug Coward @ home in Poulsbo, WA Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog =========================================