Unit record equipment, more likely. Running a bitcoin hash on that would be an interesting piece of performance art. Unit record equipment is mechanical enhan

Unit record equipment, more likely. Running a bitcoin hash on that would be an interesting piece of performance art. Unit record equipment is mechanical enhanced manual processes using punch cards. They're "almost computers" but missing some key components. So you get a radix sorter in a big box. And a totalizer in a big box (more or less an adder). And a selector in a big box. And humans configure the machines by hand and carry stacks of cards between the machines. They were high tech perhaps a generation or three before the 1401 in the article.