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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: Names of ancient computing devices [was:  Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
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In article <mddv7skl9hy.fsf_-_@panix5.panix.com>,
Rich Alderson  <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
>c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> writes:
>
>> It was vac-tube tech then ... and 'digital' was kinda
>> limited to Turing's stuff and the incipent UniVac.
>
>Quibble (reading this in a.f.c, naturally),  If you're going to CamelCase the
>name of that device, you should write UnivAC, as it's name was
>
>	Universal Automatic Computer
>
>(understanding "computer" as the name of a human occupation which had been
> electronically automated).
>

Asimov took "AC" and ran with it:

	https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
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