I had an Olivetti-Underwood Programma 101, which was first on sale in about 1965.
This is a cute story. The extent to which it deals with superstition is minor.
I ran the marketing research department at the Bank of California in the late 1960s. I had many calculators. I had no hesitation in buying this programmable computer when it first went on the market.
It had four memory registers and was programmable in a very simple machine language. I don't know how many kilobytes the four registers could handle but it is trivial by any standards.
I programmed the machine to intake a number consisting of the current date and the client’s date of birth. The machine would then use the input number and the square root of three to generate a random number. That number, limited from 1 to 40, was then printed out.
The user then looked at 40 page set of astrological forecasts that I had copied from some astrology books.
Presumably, this office computer was making astrological forecasts based on the date of birth.
I put the machine and the 40 page booklet at the front of my office so that any employee in the building could come in and use it.
There was a line from nine in the morning until six in the evening, of people waiting to use the machine. After five months, of perpetual lines, I moved the machine to a place where it could only be used for office work.
I think that is a cute story.