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Women Were the First Computers

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Were women really the first computers, or just happened to be in WWII? This is far from cite-able, but I remember reading in Cryptonomicon mentions of Japanese "computers," people calculating trajectories for weapons. I imagine this was done by men as well. (maybe I'm being too literal)

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