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by manithree 534 days ago
I thought CARDIAC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...) was pretty cool when I was in high school. I still have a couple of them in a box somewhere.
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grues-dinner 534 days ago
> High level languages have never been developed for CARDIAC as they would defeat one of the purposes of the device: to introduce concepts of assembly language programming.

That might be the first time that's ever stopped people.

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philomath_mn 534 days ago
Is there a commercially available version of this? Or a very simple mechanism / kit with a similar approach?
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