>>> Has anyone ever run the benchmark on an abacus?
>>
>> No, but now I have the urge to create an electromechanical computer 
>> and run the benchmark on that.
> 
> Are you aware how many relays you'll need to even store the rendered 
> image? :P
> 
> Even a device able to compute a b/w image of a RSOCP would be enough of 
> a challenge I guess...

Who said anything about *store*? You could make it output the binary 
data to some kind of storage device.

I would suggest that if you want hardware floating-point support, you're 
still going to need an absurd number of relays though. ;-)

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