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Fine. Antique digital circuits have a mythic resonance too, insofar as their being made of components that realize discrete logic primitives or operations exposes them to adaptation by the end user: hence, the new art of circuit bending. Not so with DSPs or commercial software. if you start shorting pins inside a DSP-based device, it will probably stop working, without doing anything interesting as it dies.
And yes, there are literary and architectural processes at play in writing software that give the act a mythic resonance as well. That is generally lost on the end user though, as he is seldom witness to its creation. All interactions with the product available to him are pre-defined. If he tampers with it, it will probably stop working, without doing anything interesting as it dies.