2026-02-14 20:50 UTC
@kenshirriff I imagine this circuitry to be not much different to the integrated circuits made in the late 1960s that were explicitly designed to implement desktop calculators.
Indeed it sure feels that way
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@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space 2026-02-14 22:08
@Sonic2k Early calculator chips are pretty weird. They operate in decimal and are serial, so they operate on one bit at a time with a one-bit ALU. So all the data is constantly in motion.