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    Although the calculating technologies available through the 1930s served business and scientific users well, during World War II they were not up to the demands of the military, which wanted to break codes, prepare firing tables for new guns, and design atomic weapons. The old technologies had three shortcomings: they were too slow in doing their calculating, they required human intervention in the course of computation, and many of the most advanced calculating systems were special purpose rather than general-purpose devices.

    Because of the exigencies of the war, the military was willing to pay whatever it would take to develop the kinds of calculating machines it needed…

    Computer, Martin Campbell-Kelly et al., p. xii

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