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paragraph_text: Prije 1946. softver još nije bio program spremljen u memoriji digitalnih računara kao što je danas ustaljeno. Prvi uređaji za elektroničko računanje su nanovo spajani žicama kako bi bili ponovno programirani. Najranija upotreba termina "softver" u inženjerskom aspektu zabilježena je u kolovozu 1953. u radu Richarda R. Carharta.Carhart, Richard (1953). A survey of the current status of the electronic reliability problem <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation. p.&nbsp;69. <q>[…] It will be recalled from Sec. 1.6 that the term personnel was defined to include people who come into direct contact with the hardware, from production to field use, i.e., people who assemble, inspect, pack, ship, handle, install, operate, and maintain electronic equipment. In any of these phases personnel failures may result in unoperational gear. As with the hardware factors, there is almost no quantitative data concerning these software or human factors in reliability: How many faults are caused by personnel, why they occur, and what can be done to remove the errors. […]</q></cite><templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>