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Yeah the original premise was using the humans as processing power, but they thought the audience would understand this better or something.
That makes a lot more sense. :)
At the time people were much less exposed to computers. Most people didn’t know what a processor was but did know what a battery was hence the chance.
It's fine. :) That's quite possible. At the time a CPU holder described an under desk PC mount and the favourite pc-related buzz word was Multimedia.
The movie plot of using people for parasitic purposes wasn't unknown though - like in Invasion of the body snatchers. Also The Thing comes to mind.