... a hundred fifty years earlier). Then there was Joseph-Marie Jacquards punchcards. Originally designed for silk looms ,the cards through later variation allowed the storage of programs for computers. Next came Charles Babbage. He invented the first of what we might today consider to be called a computer. In Babbages day the scientists who worked on mathematic tables, like logarithmic and trigonometric functions, were ... the ones called computers. The term computer was a job description well into the 1940s. Babbage proposed building a machine to calculate complex mathematical tables. He ...

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