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Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [March 12, 2021]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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How to Read in a Floppy Disk

The first computer that i used, back in 19 72, used paper tape as its way of storing information. And we're about to make a virtual machine recreation of that,. A computer eliot nine o three ae, very ure kind of computer. The idea is, floppy contains a threeday rendering of the print out of the floppy. Ye, you can, you can really confuse e with that. You can an give them the threeny print out and then say, do you have, you know, put it in your antique computer. What's going to happen?"

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