> > In the first half of the 20th century,
>> the word "computer" meant "somebody
>> who carries out a computation."
>
>See http://tinyurl.com/3a8fh3 (01)
On the other hand, I have seen historical items (letters and
newspaper articles) from the 1880s in which "computer" was a job
description. My favorite was a remark in a recommendation letter for
an astronomer's assistant, whose boss described him as the closest to
a human computing machine that he had ever encountered. Apparently
being a *mechanical* computer was once high praise. (02)
Pat
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