[TUHS] Does anybody know the etymology of the term "word" as in collection of bits

[Noel Chiappa]

    > On Sep 8, 2022, at 9:51 AM, Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:

    > One of those questions for which there is no search engine incantation.

Whatever it is, it's really old. I found it used, not quite in the modern
sense, in "Hi-Speed Computing Devices", by ERA, 1950. It was used, in the
modern sense, in "Planning a Computer System", Buchholz,1962.

	Noel