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| Oct 17, 2013 at 14:09 | comment | added | Gray Taylor | Well, computers weren't rare, they were just people (often women). These days we might speak of a gifted mathematician as being 'like a computer', but in the mid-20th century the praise flowed the other way and this would describe a useful piece of machinery. It makes reading Turing's early explanations of digital computers a bit confusing! | |
| Oct 17, 2013 at 13:20 | history | answered | Brian Borchers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |