One might also compare Weaver’s device to the so-called Zuse palimpsest, the film stock used by Konrad Zuse to encode binary…
One might also compare Weaver’s device to the so-called Zuse palimpsest, the film stock used by Konrad Zuse to encode binary data for his Z3 computer, completed in 1941. […] Of course, Zuse’s filmstrips had no real relationship to photography or cinema; the image on the filmstrip was unimportant, a mere trace of the medium’s former life.
Alexander R. Galloway Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age. London: Verso, 2021.