That’s actually a fascinating point because I both in one sense am not denying the device’s generality whilst in another sense indeed defending it’s generality:

That’s actually a fascinating point because I both in one sense am not denying the device’s generality whilst in another sense indeed defending it’s generality: it might be said that I’m actually saying it’s general because you can run those grids upon virtually any engraved backplane while at the same time since reading off the backplane is all the device does I’d be arguing it isn’t general at all. This is the mechanical analogue computer equivalent of a digital discrete computer’s bi-dimensional lookup table.