Help with question about web page access

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue Aug 24 04:57:27 2004

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 22:46, Tony Duell wrote:

> I've just checked the Shorter Oxford Dictionary (this is a 2-volume
> English dictionary, mine is somewhat old). It doesn't contain Computor or
> Weldor at all. A 'Welder' is one who welds, a Computer is a person who
> calculates.

I always thought it came about with the arrival of the comptometer - a
computer being the person who operates the device. I've never come
across computor before, but as Tony says maybe it was different on the
other side of the pond...

cheers

Jules
Received on Tue Aug 24 2004 - 04:57:27 BST