Richard Wordingham wrote:

>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:
> > At 17:33 -0400 2005-08-13, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >
> > > > I met Eric. Wicked sense of humour. Doesn't use computers? Well..
> > >he's *old*.
>
> > >He didn't use computers when he was young, either. Or typewriters.
>
> > Computers didn't exist when he was young.
>
> They did, but they were far more human :) The best picture I could
> find is from a book cover, at
> http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i7999.html .

It's not clear from the text, though, whether those women (who were
doing calculations in the 1920s, i.e. when Eric was young) were called
"computers" at that time. In the late 30s & 40s they (those who worked
in cryptography, anyway) had that job title.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...