Computer used to mean "human who does math". Before machine computers, we had human computers. Machine computers replaced all of these human computers.
And without software, what then, make a bunch of books and mail it to all these people? On this site of all sites, it's blowing my mind that this kind of thing isn't obvious to everyone. I guess maybe it isn't if you were born before the internet, but man, I'm really surprised by some of these comments.