Software

DEC PDP-1 Front Panel Real men write in Machine Language and key it in through the front panel.

There are more details here and also here.

And before that, they used logarithms which, as it happens, are the basis for slide rules and, later, some of the parts in analog computers.

It manifests itself in many ways but the root cause is western culture’s profit-focused determination that forms the core of most of our lives.

Here’s why. The Android tablet I bought did not have a front-facing camera, and the user-facing one was only 2 Mpixels.

I’m shifting to an Android tablet, the Insignia Flex (NS-13T001) from Best Buy for $249 and tax.

The computer cheated. The company I work for makes a 100% deterministic operating system.