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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I mean its not that deep is it? It just become more and more manual the further you go back until you hit the first calculators that were programmed with punch cards. Eventually cards were replaced with other types of storage and keyboards as inputs. Which allowed for human readable inputs that could then be interpreted.