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by yieldcrv 53 days ago
It doesn’t know about transistors, only rudimentary vacuum tubes

It cannot hypothesize something that isn’t completely unwieldy

You have to explain the concept of a transistor as a replacement for the mechanisms of binary state operation, and how an elegant electrical circuit reduces the size and power demands of a vacuum tube computation machine

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Now I want to see this implemented via vacuum tubes, similar to running Eliza on punchcard-driven mainframes...