1. The History of Computers
... keeping track of patient records, medications, and treatments given. They were also used in automated library systems and in database systems such as the Chemical Abstracts system, where computer records now on file cover nearly all known chemical compounds (Dolotta, 1985). The trend during the 1970s was, to some extent, away from extremely powerful, centralized computational centers and toward a broader range of ... these obstacles. Applications languages became available for controlling a great range of manufacturing processes, for computer operation of machine tools, and for many oth...
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