precomputer

After Lish had worked over a manuscript, it would be laborious at best at least in precomputer days to restore it to its original state.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

As this century closes and we enter the first computational millennium, one of the great conflicts in civilization will be the attempt to reorder society, culture and government in a manner that exploits this digital bonanza yet prevents it from running roughshod over the checks and balances so delicately constructed in those palmy precomputer years.

Technomania 2008

We can make a computer search for clues as to their actual presence in past history, but records in precomputer time are incomplete.

Home Is the Hunter Dana Kramer-Rolls 2000

They were the ones that came attached to bonds in a precomputer age.

NYT > Home Page By FLOYD NORRIS 2012

No one is advocating flipping the switch back to precomputer days.

Latest from Computerworld Lamont Wood 2010

Unlike the old precomputer days, I was able to follow up quickly on some of these questions by writing a post for the Bucks personal finance blog.

NYT > Home Page By ALINA TUGEND 2010

He’d graduated from sail to steam, but nostalgia still gripped him in the shape of old ropes, cleats, foul weather gear, tarps, a precomputer age compass, and what looked like some distress flares.

Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

He’d graduated from sail to steam, but nostalgia still gripped him in the shape of old ropes, cleats, foul weather gear, tarps, a precomputer age compass, and what looked like some distress flares.

Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

He’d graduated from sail to steam, but nostalgia still gripped him in the shape of old ropes, cleats, foul weather gear, tarps, a precomputer age compass, and what looked like some distress flares.

Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002