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lud@lemm.ee 1 month agoOr rather it was a pocket compute-er. It’s very primitive compared to a modern computer but it’s still a computer.
Comment on How to impress the honey
lud@lemm.ee 1 month agoOr rather it was a pocket compute-er. It’s very primitive compared to a modern computer but it’s still a computer.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 month ago
The first computers took up entire rooms and they could only do about as much as a calculator. There was a point in time that having a computer do multiplication and long division for you saved you hours of time because the alternative was have 2 or 3 people do it by hand and then compare to check for mistakes.
lud@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yes exactly.
Many years ago you could even have a job as a (human) computer. You pretty much computed/calculated stuff all day.