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au: Ceruzzi, Paul E.
ti: When Computers Were Human.
so: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 13, No.03, 237-244 (1991).
py: 1991
pu: American Federation of Information Processing Societies, New York [u.a.]
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li: doi:10.1109/MAHC.1991.10025
ab: Summary: A memorandum dated April 27, 1942, from the National Advisory
    Committee for Aeronautics, is reproduced. The memorandum describes a
    computing facility at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, in
    which a team of humans equipped with mechanical calculators was
    organized to assist in aeronautics research. The memorandum reveals
    much about the state of computing as it existed just before the
    invention of automatic digital computers, whose introduction would
    bring this era to a close.
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