Imagine my delight upon learning that there is NOS available of
CARDIAC: Cardboard Illustrated Aid to Computing, the Bell Labs fold-flat
computer that taught me so much about assembly language computing. Hurrah!
In 1961, Bell introduced four kits to aid science education at the high
school level. In 1968, they made a fifth kit available, called CARDIAC.
Get 'em while their hot-- stock won't last long. I don't think these prices
are accurate anymore, there's an email address for inquiries, since the
company is going out of business. CARDIAC, $19.29, and Vu-Graph for CARDIAC
$22.95. I have no idea what a VuGraph might be and don't think I've ever
seen one. But I still have my trusty CARDIAC, given to me by my 5th grade
teacher at the end of the year.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/11/newold-stock-of-bell.html
http://www.porticus.org/bell/belllabs_kits.html
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189. [Commentary] "Television has changed the American child from in
irresistible force into an immovable object." --Laurence J. Peter
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