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As I recall they all had positronic brains from the beginning, but the factory that created them used programming on paper tape to feed into whatever created th
by Tor3 8y ago
As I recall they all had positronic brains from the beginning, but the factory that created them used programming on paper tape to feed into whatever created the brain pattern. I vaguely remember a plot that was about some school class visiting the factory and a boy managing to fiddle with the paper tape and change the programming.
- cgriswald 8y agoThis is where the reader’s imagination can fill in the gaps. Paper will survive magnetic fields , heat, and rapid changes in temperature that traditional storage won’t. It’s also cheap and disposable. Maybe one or more of these is an issue when trying to cost-effectively get the initial programming into these things. We conveniently don’t really know how they work.