Therefore the 5-year useful life of a computer was used to calculate the annual equivalent of capital cost [ 23].
Its only computer was used for payroll; customer accounts were kept in hand-written ledgers.
At the time, the computer was used mainly for administrative tasks, work that was done by secretaries.
The Nimrod computer was used for a game in 1951 but it did not have a screen or show motion.
The computer was used to keep track of check amounts, dates and personal information on contributors, according to the indictment.
Then, as now, the level of vulnerability depended largely on how the computer was used and on what precautions were taken.
The spokeswoman, Lisette Mondello, said the stolen computer was used to record results from a particular pulmonary testing device, and did not contain medical records.
The I.G. report says the computer was used to visit "high-risk" Internet sites, which news leaks report to include adult sites.
Ed Ulbrich, the chief creative officer of Digital Domain, told The Journal that a computer was used to manipulate filmed images of Tupac Shakur.
It is the sequence of events that culminated when, in 1959, for the first time, a computer was used — by Herbert Gelernter, a young physicist with I.B.M. — to prove an interesting theorem in geometry.
In a letter dated March 2, the district attorney's chief trial deputy, Eric A. Hanson, wrote that there was no basis for filing charges over the pornography, since the computer was used by several people at The News-Press. "At the present time there is insufficient evidence to warrant bringing charges against any individual," the letter stated.
