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1881 Young Eng. 7 May 422/2 His shop was a general store for hardware, soft ware, wet ware, dry ware.

1904 Motor Boat (N.Y.) 25 Nov. 22/2 Visiting yachtsmen will appreciate the fact..that hardware, wetware and a general line of boat needs may always be found at 38 Atlantic avenue.

1965 Geo Marine Technol. May–June 2 Bissett-Berman pioneered the application of advanced electronics to ocean measurements..and today is a world leader in wetware manufacture.

1963 W. Millis & J. Real Abolition of War p. xv What is not understood is the power hunger that resides in what the psychiatrist Kenneth Colby calls the ‘wetware’—the human brain about which we know very little except that it is composed of about 75 percent water.

1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Dec. 1442/3 There is no obvious reason why biological ‘wetware’ should be any better at imbuing internal structures with semantic significance than silicon ‘hardware’.

1995 Proc. 5th Internat. Conf. Microelectronics for Neural Networks 2/1 The retina is an exquisitely evolved piece of neuronal wetware.

2014 M. Kaku Future of Mind i. 33 Perhaps the ‘mind’ was just a software program running on ‘wetware’ (i.e., brain tissue rather than transistors).

1975 Nature 23 Oct. 634/1 An electronic computer is made up of hardware and software; a chemical automaton needs an additional component, a chemical reaction system which might be called ‘wetware’.

1988 Nature 4 Feb. 390/2 With advances in software, hardware and ‘wet-ware’, it may be possible to create lifelike ‘organisms’.

2010 A. G. Hoekstra et al. Simulating Complex Syst. by Cellular Automata i. 13 Employing chemical and/or biological reactions..may bring new computational tools (called wetware).