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BBC - Radio 4 - Electronic Brains
build computers, and the disorganisation of Britain's computer industry. Listen again to Programme 1 the forgotten history of the first American business computer. They worked for Remington Rand, in a converted barnmechanical calculators before the war, the move into computers was fiercely opposed by senior executives - few people in those days thought businesses would ever need computers. But by 1949 they had more orders for the first modelone of them, mathematician Kathleen Mauchly, had the job title of "computer" during World War II, when with dozens of other human
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