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Re:Little Man Computer by cbd1984 on Monday June 22, 2015 @07:31AM (#9757552)
> Post Room Computer

Given that your link spells this "Postroom Computer" and is British, I'm guessing it has to do with mail (as in, the post; as in, what there is none of on Sundays) as opposed to any of the work of Emil Post, who formalized computation similarly to, independently of, but less famously than, Turing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Leon_Post

Re:Little Man Computer by RichWalton on Monday June 22, 2015 @07:44AM (#9757585)
Yes, correct :).

In the "Post Room Computer" analogy, the little man works in a post (mail) room.

The mailboxes are memory, in/out trays are IO, etc etc.