Is this really full form of COMPUTER?

[The Day Dreamer]

C ommon
O riented
M achine
P articularly
U nited and used under
T echnical and
E ducational
R esearch.

Is this really the full form of computer? If yes, then source?

 

[VirtualLarry]

"computer" is not an acronym.

 

[DSF]

It just comes from the verb compute. It's essentially just a different way of saying calculator.

Where did you hear that?

 

[Ken g6]

Wikipedia says:

The first use of the word “computer” was recorded in 1613 in a book called “The yong mans gleanings” by English writer Richard Braithwait I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number. It referred to a person who carried out calculations, or computations, and the word continued with the same meaning until the middle of the 20th century.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_...ing_and_the_invention_of_electronic_computing

Before computers, "computers" were people who did math.

Early computers were referred to with appropriate qualifiers like, say, "Universal Automatic Computer."

Which brings up an interesting thought. If you walked up to a 13-year old boy in 1944 and said, "computer," if he even knew what you were talking about, he'd probably picture a woman in his head. *mindblown*

 

[piasabird]

Danger, Danger, Will Robinson!

This sounds like some term from a book or something. People that wrote computer text books loved these kinds of things for definitions that no one understood. I saw a lot of interesting terms like this in textbooks when I was in college.

This is my way of using humor. It is a quote from "Lost in Space" if you didn't get it. It is kind of old.