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For questions about words, phrases and definitions that are specific to classic computers and gaming systems.

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Origin of "string"

The oldest occurrence I know is from 1918, so much older than the existing answers (at least for its use in mathematics and logic/computation). This is from the book: C. I. Lewis. A survey of symbolic …
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