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Digital electronics means thinking of a transistor as a switch. It's got three terminals, if there's a positive voltage on the control terminal then the other two are connected and power can flow through it. That's basically it.

If you connect billions of switches in the right pattern you get a computer. Billions of little switches clicking on and off, no more, no less. No pixies or magic dust involved.



(OK, I said billions. Thousands will do.)




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