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Where does the name computer come from?In: Computer History |
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The word "computer" means something or someone who computes. The first computers were, in fact, people - "computer" was a job description for the people who performed calculations by hand and paper. Later, when the first mechanical and electronic computing machines were built, they were called "computers" since their primary function was seen as computation of numbers ("number crunching"). Later, they assumed other roles as well, such as storage and retrieval of data, but the word "computer" stuck.
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