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[-] gronjo45@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I'd love it if they made a movie on Mel. The guy who coded a magnetic drum completely by hand.

He'd memorized a gazillion opcodes and tuned the drum to do better even before compilers had been implemented. He just didn't trust them so he refused to use the compiler lol

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