Title
Advertisement for the Brother “Word-Spell” Electronic Dictionary
Date
1986
Description
Computers, which were created in the 1940s to produce wartime ballistic firing tables, originally manipulated numbers. But since computational methods had helped to break enemy codes, Cold War resources were poured into computerizing dictionaries in the hope that computers could translate Soviet and East German scientific research. Language processing proved harder than number-crunching—much harder than anyone had expected. Only at the end of the 1970s did the speed, storage, and portability of computers make digital dictionaries a reality.
Source
Ex coll. Karolyne & Bryan A. Garner. HHD p. 422