: "Nor are slide rules. There are manners of *using* a slide rule that are forms of computation, but someone needs to actually *do* something about them; failing that, the slide rule just sits there. (And the cards were the *main memory* of the CPC, not just, as you seemed to believe, an I/O medium.)"

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Nor are slide rules. There are manners of *using* a slide rule that are forms of computation, but someone needs to actually *do* something about them; failing that, the slide rule just sits there. (And the cards were the *main memory* of the CPC, not just, as you seemed to believe, an I/O medium.)

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Kavi 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social
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I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. Punch cards are not a form of computation because they're just a way that you write stuff down, whether that's IO or inside the machine is completely irrelevant

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