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Computers at Harvard in the early 1900s: all women.  The original meaning of the word “computer” was a person who computes; that meaning goes back as far as 1646 (according to the OED).  In the late 1800s, devices like slide rules (a topic I know a bit about) were occasionally called “computers”.  But it wasn't until the 1940s that the term was used for an electronic machine that computed...