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Article #4623Re: "Model computers"
From: s... steve lamont
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 1990 22:16
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 1990 22:16
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In article <1990Sep23.1...@lth.se> mag...@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes: >I was browsing through an Edmund Scientific catalog from 1978, when I saw the >following: > > WORKING MODEL ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTERS > [...] >(B) Snap-Fit Digital Computer Kit >You build it, program it and learn from it. Perform 50 >experiments-play computer casino, predict weather, >test intelligence, solve mysteries, try to outwit it, play >chess with it and much more. ... Did anyone actually ever own one of these? I'd be interested in hearing how one went about "predicting weather" on a one of these beasts. spl (the p stands for perhaps they did it like the National Weather Service does... with a random number generator :-)) -- Steve Lamont -- SciViGuy -- Phone number of the week: (408) 646-2572 Confuser Center / Code 51 / Naval Postgraduate School / Monterey, CA 93943 "There are no fleas in the Republican Army." - Italo Calvino, _The Baron in the Trees_
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!mailrus!rutgers!sun-barr!lll-winken!taurus!libra!spl From: s...@libra.cs.nps.navy.mil (steve lamont) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: "Model computers" Message-ID: <1466@libra.cs.nps.navy.mil> Date: 23 Sep 90 22:16:28 GMT References: <1990Sep23.184354.15308@lth.se> Reply-To: s...@cs.nps.navy.mil (steve lamont) Organization: Foo Bar Brewer's Cooperative Lines: 26 Posted: Sun Sep 23 23:16:28 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit