IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> wrote on 09/01/2011 10:09:50 AM:
> From: Shane <[email protected]> > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:49:20 -0400 Phil Smith III wrote: > > Nowadays, of course, you can just say "programmer" and > > nobody bats an eye. And so the language evolves. > Losing (completely) the etymology of "computer" - being those *people* > (all women ?) that did the computing of tables. Interesting that the > machines that replaced these people (lead by ENIAC probably) usurped > the terminology. I fondly remembering September 1963 roaming the Science Center at Western Reserve University on my first day on campus. On the second floor in the Physics section was a small room with a sign on the door saying "Computer". It was locked. I went back until I found it open. There was one desk in the room. I asked the woman at the desk "Where is the computer?" She smiled broadly and said "That would be me." Her computer was an Univac 1107 on the Case campus. ----------------------------------------- The information contained in this communication (including any attachments hereto) is confidential and is intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, copying, or unauthorized use of this information, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. Thank you
