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Cybernetic

Something Rhymes with Purple

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What Is the First Meaning of a Computer?

The very first meaning of a computer was somebody who made calculations or computations. So it was a calculator in human form. And competer would also make calculations in an observatory, for example. When i was a child, they were huge computers filled whole rooms, buildings. One computer would fill a building. Yet, what you ve think of bletchley park, i suppose.

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