“If You Had To Give A Name To The Whole Apparatus, What Would You Call It?" "Hmmm," Waterhouse Says. "Well, Its Basic Job Is To Perform Mathematical Calculations-like A Computer." Comstock Snorts. "A Computer Is A Human Being." "Well . . . This Machine Uses Binary Digits To Do Its Computing. I Suppose You Could Call It A Digital Computer." Comstock Writes It Out In Block Letters On His Legal Pad: DIGITAL COMPUTER.”
— Neal Stephenson —
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