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Originally Posted by CaliNative
True noir requires beer to be opened by can openers, and the can must not be aluminum but steel. True noir era also allows smoking EVERYWHERE (cough, wheeze). Color TVs are a novelty in the noir era, and VERY expensive and the picture is rotten. Computers are as big as a room and still use vacuum tubes (as do TVs).
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Doesn't the noir era extend back to the 1930s? Or even the Twenties? 'Computer' back then had quite a different meaning. It was a person, not a machine.
From my pre-WWII Webster's Dictionary:
COM-PUT'ER, n. One who computes; a reckoner; a calculator.
COM-PUT'ING, ppr. Counting; numbering; reckoning; estimating.
COM'PU-TIST, n. A computer.
A computer, or computist, would find employment at a bank, a mortgage lender, an actuary, insurance company, or in some other business-related field.