History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (March 10, 2021)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
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Eunuchs - The Electronic Switching System
Originally there were these electromechanical switches where you would actually move wheels around to connect this to that. Buto a, sot of the big innovation was, well, let's just use a computer to do all the switching stuff. Let's have the electronic switching system be controlled by a general purpose computer. And so that was, that was what created eunuchs. Eunuch was the the em a, the kind of a a stripped down maltic am.
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