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Article #1288Re: Anyone (else) own a Geniac/Brainiac?
From: Jeff Woolsey
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 01:20
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 01:20
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Oh, yes, CARDIAC. The CARDboard Illustriative Aid to Computation. I think Bell Labs put the thing out, if I remember right. I still have mine, somewhere. It's twenty years old by now, I'm sure. To tie this in to another ongoing discussion here, CARDIAC has a bug without which it wouldn't work. The program counter was a paper ladybug with a long nose that stuck in the holes next to the spots where you wrote down the instructions (memory). There was a sliding instruction decoder, too. Just the thing to impress the hell out of an 11-year-old (quick, how old am I?). -- -- Jeff Woolsey Microtec Research, Inc +1 408 980-1300 ...!apple!netcom!woolsey ...!amdcad!sun0!woolsey
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