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Cory Doctorow · 13w
All an electronic computer does is repeat these crude mechanical operations, millions of times per second, using microscopic transistors. None of that action can be observed with the naked eye, of cou...
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Much later, I learned a word for what I got from the CARDiac: *legibility*. Together, the CARDiac and I made a working digital computer, with me standing in for the physics that propels electrons down the endless labyrinth of a microchip, like a pinball triggering various blooping, beeping bumpers.

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Cory Doctorow · 13w
Though the computing we performed was sub-trivial (adding one and one was a major undertaking!), the physical performance of that computing imbued me with *Fingerspitzengefühl* ("fingertip feeling"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl This stood me in great stead in the years ...