computers are literally just crystal magic
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computers as crystal magic 

there's a timing crystal that gives a heartbeat to several thinking crystals that talk to each other and to memory crystals along carefully arranged passageways of highly purified (magically-receptive/electrically-conductive) metal, with another thinking crystal purely devoted to dreaming up shapes and telling illumination crystals how to light up in patterns to produce those shapes for the (mage/user) to view so they can see what the other thinking crystals are thinking. the (mage/user) can tell the whole apparatus what to do with special hand gestures while holding yet another assemblage of crystals
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always strive to see the wonder in the world, because it's always there to be seen
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computers as crystal magic 

@Felthry this sounds an awful lot like the sentient computers in the Young Wizards series! (Good books)

re: computers as crystal magic 

@petra We read some of those as a kid!

what I wrote was actually an accurate (if simplified, and using deliberately magicky wording) description of how computers work though!
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re: computers as crystal magic 

@Felthry ah i did not see the root post so i thought you were just worldbuilding lmao

computers as crystal magic 

@Felthry also etched runes (pcb antennas) to sync the crystals' vibrations with the surrounding ether

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@Nervengift Ooh, that's a good one.
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