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... puter proliferates - so the argument runs - it will make possible new ways of entertaining and educating ourselves , new ways of keeping in touch with one another , and new ways of carrying out the necessary chores of daily life . The ...
... puter proliferates - so the argument runs - it will make possible new ways of entertaining and educating ourselves , new ways of keeping in touch with one another , and new ways of carrying out the necessary chores of daily life . The ...
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... puter took as long as it did to arrive . The first man to conceive of a device that could accurately be called a com- puter , Charles Babbage , lived and worked well over a cen- tury ago . The machine that is generally thought to be the ...
... puter took as long as it did to arrive . The first man to conceive of a device that could accurately be called a com- puter , Charles Babbage , lived and worked well over a cen- tury ago . The machine that is generally thought to be the ...
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... puter - ever larger , more costly , more powerful , and more abstruse . In terms of operating costs it was usually cheaper to use one large computer rather than a dozen smaller , less- powerful ones to accomplish the same amount of work ...
... puter - ever larger , more costly , more powerful , and more abstruse . In terms of operating costs it was usually cheaper to use one large computer rather than a dozen smaller , less- powerful ones to accomplish the same amount of work ...
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