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It only sounds like a silly statement because we kept the name "computer". In terms of what a computer was in 1943? He was probably right.

In 1943 computers were common companies hired rooms full of them. Visicalc on an apple ii can do in minutes what they did in a day.

yes companies used to hire people to just add columns of numbers.

Some days, I wish my job was that straightforward...