Exactly, bit banging an 8-bit bus isn't that different from pushing the data out of the USB port. It would be great to try an LLM trained on pre-1900 documents and ask it if powered flight is possible.
English around 1800-1900 reads almost like modern English. At least if the author didn't write in an overly pretentious style, which was more common back then
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280