> The original meaning of the word computer was a person who calculates.
Was that ever so?
According to Google Ngrams, "computer" was not really a term until, predictably, around 1950, even though the verb "compute" has been in use throughout history (it comes from the Latin "computare", apparently).
That tells me "computer" was never a person, always a machine.
Was that ever so?
According to Google Ngrams, "computer" was not really a term until, predictably, around 1950, even though the verb "compute" has been in use throughout history (it comes from the Latin "computare", apparently).
That tells me "computer" was never a person, always a machine.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=compute%2Ccomp...