Meanings
precomputers1
- informalnot comparableBefore the availability of computers.
The only caveat is if you bought something pre-computers, or inherited stocks pre-computers, then if you actually have that purchase date, you can keep it.
2017, Amanda Sullivan, Organized Enough: The Anti-Perfectionist’s Guide to Getting—and Staying—Organized, →ISBN2 more examples
We worked with encrypted communications, in an atmosphere of secrecy with wheels and codes and what was then considered advanced data processing equipment (precomputers, of course).
2012, Richard S. Monkman, Just Before Dark, →ISBN, page 41There should be some kind of law that no one is allowed to have visions past the age of fifty, especially if said person used to be a car mechanic, precomputers.
2013, George Singleton, “Man Oh Man—It’s Manna Man”, in Claude Lalumière, editor, Super Stories of Heroes & Villains, →ISBN, page 247
precomputers2
- pluralplural of precomputer
Origin
From pre- + computers.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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