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To: Swordmaker

Back in the day, a "computer" was a sexy young keypunch girl who operated data-entry devices, crunching thousands of calculations for things like the Manhattan project.


763 posted on 03/15/2005 8:54:01 PM PST by Petronski (If 'Judge' Greer can kill Terri, who will be next?)
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To: Petronski
Back in the day, a "computer" was a sexy young keypunch girl who operated data-entry devices, crunching thousands of calculations for things like the Manhattan project.

And sometimes the only data-entry device was a pencil and paper...

776 posted on 03/15/2005 10:40:18 PM PST by Swordmaker
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