r.hensbergen (4/23/2010)
Amazing how many people said 1859... Only halfway through WWII computers were really programmable (and used for military reasons) and the word was used as such... BTW programmers were all female at that time 🙂
And just to confuse things, the programmers were (assuming you mean halfway through WWII and not 1859) called "lady computers", and the machines were called something quite different.
Tom