This reminds me of a story that a lecturer told us at University. That at one point they distributed computations to the drive controllers of the connected (fri

This reminds me of a story that a lecturer told us at University. That at one point they distributed computations to the drive controllers of the connected (fridge sized) disk drives because they could do so much processing while waiting for the platters to spin into place. So the whole story of a disk being a computer has been true for a long time.