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16 Oct 1997

...
   IBM card
machine may be     pre-computer (programmed by plugboards, etc.). 
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                            

  WHOAH here !!  Just a minute !! Are you trying to say that anything 
 without a LSI chip or integrated circuit-board is a "pre-computer" ? 
Eeek!  What's it got to do with LSI?

Surely that just means that computers started with the Manchester Small Scale 
Experimental Machine in 1948?

(For details, see http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/prog98/ )

Personally, I think that the later (Ferranti?) machines with ferrite plug 
programming were also computers, but there you are...

Philip.

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