Can computer models be touched

Answer 1

If you are referring to computer models as being models that only exist in a computer's memory, then no, they cannot be touched. They are software and you simply cannot touch software. If you mean physical scale models of computers, then yes, they can be touched. They are hardware.

The easiest way to describe software is by picking up a book full of words. The software is the meaning behind those words, not the words themselves. It is the idea those words suggest to you, or what you imagine they mean. The concept the author is trying to convey. The story. None of these things are real -- the software is all in your head, your mind's eye if you will. You cannot touch it any more than you can touch the models in a computer's memory.

The words themselves are akin to the bits and bytes. We can see and touch them but until we actually process them, the software is completely hidden form us. Just as words on a page are meaningless until we actually read them.

The pages that hold the words are the medium, which is really no different to the punch-cards used by early computers to store software (where the bits and bytes were physical holes punched into card -- they could be seen and felt). Nowadays we used hard-drives and optical discs to store software, but the software doesn't actually come to life until we load it into memory and process it -- which is akin to reading the words on a page and extracting their meaning.

Answer 2

no