10 Jun
2005
10 Jun
'05
7:04 p.m.
On 6/10/05, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
One of my co-workers just dropped off a fun little
thing at my desk -
a McGraw-Hill publication from 1979, the "Instructo Paper Computer"...
it's like the Bell Labs Cardiac. I'd never heard of the Instructo
before. Digging around on the 'net only found this...
http://www.computermuseumgroningen.nl/mcgrawhill/ipc.html (is Allard
Shaap here on the list?)
In case this spawns a CARDIAC thread... start here ->
http://www.larkfarm.com/cardiac_answers.htm
I should like to have a reprint done of one or both of these for use
in my introductory computing classes. Students are made to simulate a
modern system, and these paper models could be of great utility both
in the historical overview and some of the introductory sections.
-dhbarr.