Too late to edit, but I misremembered a little: from an earlier comment that I'd forgotten I'd made¹, the program image on paper tape had the aces marked dealt,

Too late to edit, but I misremembered a little: from an earlier comment that I'd forgotten I'd made¹, the program image on paper tape had the aces marked dealt, and the TRANSFER CONTROL test switch merely skipped the part of initialization that cleared it. This means that (with sufficient time and dedication) one could in principle prepare multple tapes with different starting configurations, analogous to editing a binary to change a hardcoded seed. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20489774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20489774