Is There a Computer in My Remote Control?

So a computer is like what we think of as like the brain equivalent, as far as i can tell. And then a computer system is where you start including like the peripheral stuff, so like the hardware and an operating system. I feel like i know what the etymology of the word computer is though. It was first used in 16 13 in a book by richard braithwaite as a job title. But i guess i don't know where compute comes from. So there's t yes. O, computer, it does come from Compute.

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