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Early use of the term in a printed work
Thomas Collison, The Superfortress is Born: The Story of the Boeing B-29, Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, New York, 1945 is interesting, because it contains (on pp. 86-87) one of the earliest printed uses of the word 'computer' (other than the now-obsolete references to the human ones) that I can recall seeing. The 'computer' in question is nothing like what we now think of as a 'computer' - it was not general-purpose, and apparently not digital - and it was made of a mixture of "electric, electronic and mechanical equipment"; its job it was to aim the defensive guns of the B-29 against attacking fighters. Jnc (talk) 04:13, 5 June 2024 (CEST)
