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| May 29, 2012 at 9:05 | comment | added | Suresh Venkat Mod | Fair enough (on the issue of an actual computer) :) | |
| May 29, 2012 at 8:38 | comment | added | Jeffε | Also: What's an "actual computer"? Does the Antikythera mechanism count? The abacus? Piles of rocks? Fingers? | |
| May 29, 2012 at 8:27 | comment | added | Jeffε | It's not clear whether his focus is a history of computing techniques, a history of computing devices, or a history of computing applications. I think the first focus would be in scope here, although it would be very hard to distinguish it from a history of mathematics. The other two foci would not really fit here. | |
| May 27, 2012 at 20:21 | history | answered | Suresh VenkatMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |