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History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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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