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Before that time, ‘computing’ was considered largely ‘women's work’, along with other clerical tasks like filing and word processing. I'm fond of this photo of
by kps 12y ago
Before that time, ‘computing’ was considered largely ‘women's work’, along with other clerical tasks like filing and word processing. I'm fond of this photo of a room full of computers, taken sometime between between 1909 and 1932: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90710989/ http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/90710989/
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoThe "computers" being the people, the machines are computing machines - or more likely here, merely calculating machines. At least that's the early usage in the UK.