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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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I could see where she was coming from. I encountered computers in the mid-seventies, as a small child. My first computer was a CARDIAC, a working, Turing-complete, mechanical computer made entirely of cardboard, that I spent endless hours with:
https://www.instructables.com/CARDIAC-CARDboard-Illustrative-Aid-to-Computation-/
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2026-06-15T17:02:31.727Z