7 Jan
1999
7 Jan
'99
9:40 a.m.
Don't tell Andrew Davie, but I'm trying to compete with him in the realm
of weird computing machines.
I just took delivery of a Cybernetic Systems Mathiputer.
It's a stupid odd-shaped math toy that quizes you on arithmetic. It looks
like somebody took a steel globe, split it in half, and put the two halves
back together inside out and sideways (hey, Chuck, I need a diagram here).
It had LED's, incadescent lights, and three rotary switches for input.
Weird enough?
It appears to be from around 1974, and it's got several ceramic and gold
Fairchild parts. Some are 3XXXDC series, such as 3807DC. Does this ring
a bell for anybody? Was there a CPU or calc chip in that series?
-- Doug