electromechanical computer
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electromechanical computer (plural electromechanical computers)
- (computer hardware) An early type of computer that used electromagnetic relays.
- In 1937, Howard Aiken, a mathematician at Harvard University, developed the idea for a general-purpose electromechanical computer, the Harvard Mark I.