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To: combjelly who wrote (314865)	12/10/2006 8:36:37 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586521

On purpose, while not even mentioning "mechanic" you note that I used the term "electronic" and not "electric". Sometimes being precise has some virtue. Taro

To: combjelly who wrote (314865)	12/14/2006 8:56:37 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586521

You see the first electronic computers were up running on tubes in the late 40s because the transistors and ICs were not invented as yet." And mechanical ones, and ones based on relays... Computers have existed for a while. The tabulating machines that Hollerith developed were computers, and they existed in the late 1800s. Did you see that mechanism they found in a shipwreck off the island of Rhodes dating back to the Roman Empire that was an early computer?