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Nintendo were in the game business the whole time, the type of game changed due to technology. IBM were in the computer business, they still are its just that
by celticninja 11y ago
Nintendo were in the game business the whole time, the type of game changed due to technology.
IBM were in the computer business, they still are its just that the industry has changed so now we think of what theybdo as software and what e.g. Dell do as the computer business
- kbenson 11y ago> IBM were in the computer business Specifically, in the business of selling items to help "computers", a job title for people who computed values.
- hughw 11y agoWhen I was young, an old oil company geophysicist told me, "I remember when a computer was a person."
- btilly 11y agoNope. Its machines were doing tabulation of data stored on punchcards. Humans were not involved in doing the calculations. Human computers were needed for more complex mathematical operations.
- kbenson 11y agoI think that qualifies. Accurate and efficient storage of values through a machine is of help to the people that were operating them. Or perhaps are you implying they were computing as well as tabulating?
- btilly 11y agoThey were doing calculations that could be done by keeping a running total. Which meant that you could take a stack of cards and count, say, how many were men in Chicago between 25-50 years old. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine#Operation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine#Operation for more.