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Description: During the 1940s and 1950s, JPL used the word "computer" to refer to a person rather than a machine. The all-female computer team, many of the members recruited right out of high school, were responsible for doing all the math by hand required to plot satellite trajectories and more.
Title: 207469main computers-p-163-500
Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explorer/computers.html
Author: NASA/JPL
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