> Long before computers existed, businesses used electromechanical accounting machines for data processing. The term "computer" -- referring to either an organ

> Long before computers existed, businesses used electromechanical accounting machines for data processing. The term "computer" -- referring to either an organism carrying out computations or a machine doing the same -- predates our modern concept of "computer" -- what we think of instantaneously when reading the word -- by many (or some, depending on your concept of "computer") decades.