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How far back in time can a modern computer be reversed engineered (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Another post regarding time travel got me wondering how far back in time can I hypothetically leave a modern computer where they, the most capable engineers of their time, can then somewhat reverse engineer it or even partially?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say before the 19th century, this theoretical computer would be so much slower that even the idea of constructing such a machine wouldn't occur to people, cause there is no problem it would solve and no task it would help with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It would help with playing solitaire if they didn’t have a deck of cards nearby