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When Computers Were Human

[June 6, 2007] What did it mean to be a human computer? Who were the first ones? Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to people who did scientific calculation...  
 
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Thanks for this conference, I was looking for something like this, some essential information about computers and its beginning, here I have founded, thank you again.

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