Tube🍂Time on Nostr: today at the Computer History Museum we adjusted the read timings on the 1401 ...
today at the Computer History Museum we adjusted the read timings on the 1401 computer's 1402 card reader. to do this, we load a deck of "555" timing cards, which have the number 5 punched in columns 1-3 and 78-80. seems that 555 really is a magic number for timers...
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