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
Received on Fri Aug 20 2004 - 01:03:06 BST