TL;DR: We break down the inner workings of a 19th-century mechanical player piano using modern IT terms, and discover why a self-playing piano is actually a mechanical 88-bit processor. Remember those old Western movies? A sheriff walks into a saloon, faces around look grim, and in the corner, ...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/gagatust/the-pianola-your-computers-grandmother-1b0b)