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by tim333 56 days ago
Searching for "computer" the only one was one Chauncey Wright, American philosopher and mathematician, who became became computer to the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.

https://britannica11.org/article/28-0872-wright-chauncey/wri...

Times change.

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When I thought I recalled 'computer' used to be a job title, I found this on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

which says that "(the first known written reference dates from 1613)... often women from the late nineteenth century onwards, were used to undertake long and often tedious calculations; the work was divided so that this could be done in parallel."

More on the topic:

Review of 2005 book "When Computers Were Human" 424pp. ISBN: 0-691-09157-9

https://web.archive.org/web/20060821120909/http://www.pupres...