An interesting and mildly concerning problem I just realized: We effectively have no way to "from zero" bootstrap a new computer without another computer, unless we go digging through a computer history museum's collection for a machine with front-panel loading and/or a paper tape/punchcard reader. (Or an old parallel-ROM machine and a breadboard DIP-switch programmer)
Of course, it's extremely unlikely that would ever come to pass even in the case of a second carrington event, simply due to the number of 'old' machines unplugged and in storage, or ones deep underground on heavily isolated electrical systems, but it's still an interesting "what if?"
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