On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Adrian Stacey wrote:
> Peter Cornelius wrote:
> >
> > Oxford Concise Dictionary, 1925 - which also mentions 'computers', but I'm
> > not sure how they were programmed. Some things were even before my time!)
>
Computers in those days were people who performed complex calculations
with pencil and paper. They normally worked in teams as part of a design
project and were a very important part of a design team for a large
design project, ships, aircraft, dams and the like.
Phil.
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