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> IBM literally provided computers that ran the holocaust. IBM literally provided punch card record keeping equipment. IBM literally didn't provide computers.
by kps 1y ago
> IBM literally provided computers that ran the holocaust.
IBM literally provided punch card record keeping equipment. IBM literally didn't provide computers. Computers literally didn't exist.
- tough 1y agoPunch cards where the literal computers at the time...
- kps 1y agoThe literal computers at the time were people. Computer: 1. One who computes; a calculator, reckoner; spec. a person employed to make calculations in an observatory, in surveying, etc. [OED, 1923] Punch cards held tables of records, and the unit record equipment were nowhere close to the modern meaning of ‘computer’. (The human computers were probably Turing-complete, though.)
- tough 1y ago[flagged]