Fun fact: The first computer ever designed was slow as shit, consumed hundreds of thousands of watts and processed data at a rate of around 5,000 operations per second. It was powered by vacuum tubes and there were people hired specifically to replace burnt out tubes hourly.
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"computer" was also for a while a job title for humans (many women) who performed manual calculations.


