Boy Evan, that one caught me! My parents gave me a Brainiac in the '50's, and I later (in the Journal of the San Diego Computer Society, I believe) wrote a short appreciation of Berkeley and that flaky toy. Even though it was flaky, he caught my mind. I subscribed to C&A for many years, even when he renamed it Computers & People (and changed it back). He died in 1988. His papers are in the Babbage Institute. Here's a link to the inventory: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cbi00050.html Vern --- On Mon, 12/15/08, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net> wrote: