[Ads-l] Antedating of "Digital" (Computer Sense)

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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digital, adj. (OED, 2.b., 1945)

1942 in Bernard O. Williams, _Computing with Electricity, 1935-1945_ (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, 1984) 310.




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