How was the first computer programmed? With what? How does it know 1 means yes and 0 means no?
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Patch panels, switches, and punch cards. Punch cards were already in use for programming looms to weave specific patterns(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ijmjx7Xys).
There were also computers made for a single purpose, which were programmed by design.
Electronic digital computers have “high” or “low”, but the association with “1” and “0” or with “yes” and “no” is arbitrary. It’s a meaning the human assigns.
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