Alas, I did not yet know quite enough about even those primitive machines.

Recording for that primitive machine was a comparatively simple matter.

I have often wondered why it should be such a primitive machine in spite of all its modern gadgets.

The Homebrewers are excited about a primitive new machine called the Altair 8800.

They used the King County payroll computer, a "huge, primitive machine" by contemporary standards, but the only one available for their use.

Nanomachines are largely in the research-and-development phase, but some primitive molecular machines have been tested.

"I understand how a robot works, but figuring out these primitive machines at a glance, without a design to go by--forget it."

However, electrical conductivity of CuSil was measured about 30 years ago with a very primitive machine.

You won't be able to use every feature on the more primitive machines, and speed will suffer somewhat.

Jason had had some experience with primitive machines before, so the safety valve on the boiler came as no great surprise.