computor
English
Etymology
Noun
computor (plural computors)
- Obsolete spelling of computer.
- 1957 November, “Electronics in Railway Accountancy”, in Railway Magazine, page 746:
- British Railways are beginning to reap the advantages of electronics applied to accounting. At Swindon Works, a computor, the first of its type to be used anywhere in the world, was installed recently to deal with the pay of some 10,000 employees.
- 1984 April 25, “Electronic Mail is in McAllen!”, in The Monitor, 74th year, number 255, McAllen, Tex., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18A, column 9:
- EPS will retrieve the information from Western Union, via its computor and forward to you.
- 1985 December, “Sims Anemometers Measure Wind!”, in Weatherwise (inline advertisement), Sims Anemometers, page 58:
- WITH SERIAL COMPUTOR INTERFACE
References
- “computor”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Latin
Verb
computor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of computō
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