Cardiac: CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation (1969)(cs.drexel.edu) |
Cardiac: CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation (1969)(cs.drexel.edu) |
That class introduced me to Mathematical Recreations, Raymond Smullyan, and computing. We had a CARDIAC we played with, and later went to the University to write FORTRAN programs on punch cards.
CARDIAC simulator in JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8348615 - Sept 2014 (5 comments - thanks miles)
CARDIAC Cardboard Computer Emulator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=641032 - June 2009 (5 comments)
Tangentially related:
PAPAC-00, a Do-It-Yourself Paper Computer (1958) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15026101 - Aug 2017 (12 comments)
I think there have been others...anyone?
Edit: A fun comment from a different thread (Aug 2012):
CARDIAC simulator in JavaScript (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8348615
CARDIAC (2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8439443
Cardiac – A cardboard illustrative aid to computation (Bell Labs 1968) (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18433504
Cardiac: Portable cardboard computer (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949393
I wonder if the tactility of it helped make assembly easier to learn - or harder, because it didn't have immediate feedback.