“A combination of very simple operations can do something quite complex.”
Fred Harris considers what a computer is, and how it handles data, using a variety of historical analoges. He explains how a player piano – that interprets the thousands of perforations on a scroll and converts them into key presses to produce a musical performance – is effectively doing the job of computer hardware, while the scrolls can be considered software.
Credit to : BBC Archive
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