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** In ''[[The End of Eternity]]'', everyone walks around with a decoder for punch tapes - and no one thinks to put one in a mainframe.
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]'' has Mike, a computer that can be programmed ''from multiple locations''!! However, when he gets glitchy, they have to call in a computer repairman (who got expensive training in microcircuitry back on Earth) who can program him at the main computer using the powerful microtools of his mechanical arm.
** A computer with 1
* [[Stanislaw Lem]]'s old fifties novel ''[[The Astronauts|Astronauci]]'' ("The Astronauts"), set in 2003, features a spaceship's computer which has no textual interface ''at all'', instead displaying all its output as wavey graphs without any numbers or words. The operators must specifically learn to read these.
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