Some idioms were lost in translation, here is a perhaps a bit more literary version > This was a comic book that described what the compooters[1] are and what

Some idioms were lost in translation, here is a perhaps a bit more literary version > This was a comic book that described what the compooters[1] are and what to do with them, and I finally realized that I could never get to the fairy land called "minframe" [2] in this life. [1]: sic, deliberate misspelling [2]: I could not find a better English translation for the original word "ЭВМ". The acronym stands for " electronic computation machine" which technically just means "computer", but in the sense of "computer occupying a whole room that feeds on punch cards and interns"