Those Parts Of The System That You Can Hit With A Hammer (not Advised) Are Called Hardware

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Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised)
are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse
at are called software.
-- Levitating Trains and Kamikaze Genes: Technological
Literacy for the 1990's.

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