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Re: tep

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: tep
• Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:27:27 EDT

In a message dated 2004-06-30 8:20:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Is a "computer" a machine or a person?
> 
> Depends on when it was said.
> 
> SuStel
> 

True.  The original meaning was a person.  The computer in Robert A. 
Heinlein's novel "Starman Jones" (c1953) was the person who operated the computing 
machine, using a manual of binary numbers.  
But *now*, a computer is always a machine.

lay'tel SIvten

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