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  • slide rules (linear, circular, cylindrical, etc.)
  • nomographs
  • mechanical desk calculators
  • printed lookup tables
  • napier's bones
  • sector
  • abacus and counting boards
  • fingers
  • etc.
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Laptop computers, as we now know them, were invented because the existing computers were not portable enough for people of that time. Before lugable/portable/laptop computers came the desktop,er, computer that is. There is still some discussion on who invented Desktop computer with many names mentioned. You would need to go back in History to the Second World War to work out who invented Mainframe computers but some did and they came before desktop computers.

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abacus

slide rule

Pascaline

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the analytical engine

typewriter

tabulating machine

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