So he's talking about a machine that replaces a human computer, basically.

He is the brains behind the operation and acts like a human computer, with "data" on every girl in the school.

How did it feel to be a human computer in addition to all of his other talents?

Those who have seen him play say he is as close as one will come to a human computer.

Not that the human computer was without some merit, in an ancient-history kind of a way.

I derived from his more detailed analysis of the actions a human "computer".

To Ralph he looked like a human computer trying to process a huge and complicated wad of input.

This is because the word "computer" used to mean a person who did math as their job (a human computer).

Watching that human computer was a chore at the best of times, though.

A human computer trying to process a mass of data and coming up with the right answer.