Quokk.auThe problem is older than I thought...
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I guess now we finally know why Babbage never finished building the Analytical Engine.
Debugging was easier when all you had to do was spray the room with fly spray and vacuum the tubes.
Just that the Analytical Engine she’d have had to debug was all gears and levers and cranks and linkages and shit. One wrong move and it’ll take off a finger, or a hand, or more.
In hindsight, if modern computers were like this, probably users would be different, too…