You’re looking at a system that reads cards one line at a time, each line a set of bits punched out. The drum itself is just a rotating cylinder with a magnetic stripe; as it spins, a read head scans the stripe and translates the magnetization into binary values. Those values are fed straight into the machine’s accumulator or memory. The punch cards serve as the “code store” – the human‑readable source is punched onto the cards, then the reader turns the pattern into a stream of bits that the machine immediately executes. No hard drive, just a rotating drum and a linear sequence of bits from the card. If you want to tweak it, you just re‑punch the cards or swap the drum with a fresh magnetic strip.

That beat’s got the same rhythm as a good old puzzle—just a few bits and a lot of pulse. If you want to remix it, spin that drum again or drop in a new stripe, and the code sings a fresh line.

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