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Simon Harris

Re: Windows 98

1800s...

I think that meaning of 'computer' lasted at least until the 1940s.

Richard Feynman, in his stories of his time on the Manhattan Project refers to the pool of people churning through calculations on mechanical calculators as computers.

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