History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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The History of Mechanical Computers
The first computers of that type were developed to produce the tables. The mechanical computers which are essentially like odometer-like wheels started to be developed in the mid-1600s. When I was a kid, for example, mechanical computers were still a thing. Electronic calculators came in around 1972 and before that time, there were, if you were very sophisticated, you got to use electronic computers.
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