precomputers

Before the availability of computers.

Adverb

  1. Before the availability of computers.
    • We worked with encrypted communications, in an atmosphere of secrecy with wheels and codes and what was then considered advanced data processing equipment (precomputers, of course). - 2012, Richard S. Monkman, Just...
    • There should be some kind of law that no one is allowed to have visions past the age of fifty, especially if said person used to be a car mechanic, precomputers. - 2013, George Singleton, “Man Oh Man—It’s Manna Man”, in...
    • The only caveat is if you bought something pre-computers, or inherited stocks pre-computers, then if you actually have that purchase date, you can keep it. - 2017, Amanda Sullivan, Organized Enough: The...

Origin

From pre- + computers.

Related

precomputer

Noun

  1. plural of precomputer