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Computers—the Machines We Think With · D. S. Halacy — chapter 62 of 67 · ~108 words · public domain

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Sara Lee Bakeries, 206

Sausage making by computer, 179

Scaling, analog computer, 76

Scientific American, 140, 239

“Sea Wolf” testing by computer, 162

Second industrial revolution, 171

Self-reproducing machines, 33, 268

Selfridge, Oliver, 124

Sequential computers, 126

Sex and numbers, 19

Shannon, Claude, 44, 110, 215

Shelley, Mary W., 42

“Shoebox” computer, 242

Sidewinder missile, 160

Signal Corps, U. S. A., 77

Simon, Herbert, 141

Simulator, 79, 169, 187, 189

Simulmatics Corp., 181

Simultaneous linear equations, 77

Skinner, B. F., 133, 223, 230

Skybolt missile, 160

Slide rule, 7, 85

Smee, Alfred, 121

Social Security, 149

“Software,” computer, 54

Solartron-John Brown, Ltd., 174

Sonotype, 243

Son pan, 23

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