19 Aug
2004
19 Aug
'04
6:03 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
>That's because they didn't have computers
back then.
Yes they did. They were the people who operated the
calculating machines :-)
The current issue of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing has an
an interesting article on the origins of the word computer. It is
available for free at http://www.computer.org/annals/an2004/promo1.pdf
-- HansP