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wlesieutre on Sept 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: At 4.4 miles, Wyoming team sets new rifle shot wor...

And before the electronic computers, we used mechanical computers! https://hackaday.com/2013/03/13/retrotechtacular-mechanical-...

iancmceachern on Sept 24, 2022 [–]

And before that we used human computers!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

adrian_b on Sept 24, 2022 | [–]

The first job that my father got (around 1953) was as a "computer", at an astronomical observatory.

However, such jobs have started to disappear very quickly after that time, with the spread of the electronic computers.

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