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Punch-Cards to Prompts: Rebooting Reality

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2 points by merusame 3 months ago · 1 comment

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dtagames 3 months ago

While the history of computers is fascinating, it's not true that one needed punch cards or a terminal to add two numbers in the 1970s.

Mechanical calculators had existed since the 1800's and electronic ones came around in the 1960's.

I lost interest when it started with nonsense. Paywall doesn't help, either.

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