It seems like the author doesn't understand, in a fundamental sense, what a computer is. She has been led astray by surface appearances. Digital "computers" are called that because they developed as higher-precision, lower-speed versions of "analog computers", which integrated systems of ordinary differential equations in real time (but faster). Examples included Bush's mechanical differential analyzer, the MONIAC hy…
Thanks for your comment, I think it's insightful. Serious question: why do you write years with five digits?
Oh, it's just a silly fun thing: https://longnow.org/ideas/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-di...