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Q: How was early randomness generated?

wizzwizz4Many programs make use of randomness, from BASIC guess-the-number games to encryption key generators. This randomness could have been generated in many, many different ways: hardware, software, software seeded by hardware... What techniques were used to generate randomness in early computers, a...


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