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submitted 10 months ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?

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[-] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I mean, that's 40 years ago.
I can understand that their mechanical abilities had peaked, and weren't able to improve on it.
It would be curious to test that against a modern CNCd mechanical analog firing computer, and then test THAT against a modern 128-bit fixed/floating point computer.
I imagine the computer would win

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