The sheer act of writing caused so much frustration that any maker of a primitive computer might have been besieged.

仅仅就写作本身就让人如此沮丧，那么早期任何一位电脑发明者有可能是因为写字不顺畅，无奈之下才激发出研制电脑动力。

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The primitive computer, priced at $666.66, had no keyboard or display, and customers had to assemble it themselves.

最原始的电脑，价值666.66美金，没有键盘甚至显示器，顾客还必须自己来装配。

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The process to control it is intriguing and interesting but the heart of the computer is simply this notion that we build our descriptions, our recipes, on a sequence of primitive instructions.

这个控制它的过程很耐人寻味，很有意思，但是计算机的核心仅仅只是，我们在初始指令序列上，建造描述、方法的一个概念罢了。

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The process to control it is intriguing and interesting but the heart of the computer is simply this notion that we build our descriptions, our recipes, on a sequence of primitive instructions.

这个控制它的过程很耐人寻味，很有意思,但是计算机的核心仅仅只是,我们在初始指令序列上，建造描述、方法的一个概念罢了。

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