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Last time this was posted I called bullshit, but for some goddamn reason this is genuinely what the computer looks like. It really is suspended just above the floor. It really is a Lovecraftian tangle of nonsense.
Stored-program computers wouldn't emerge for another couple years... and people complained that they were slower and less reliable. Surely, these professional ultranerds said, we should stick with rewiring the whole machine every time we change the program, so it can only do what we intend. Who would ever trust a machine to write instructions for another machine?