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by rootbear 400 days ago
I was given one of these by my eighth grade science teacher, ca. 1970. I still have it. It helped spark my interest in computers.
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I go one of these as well. Sadly, I was too dense to "get it" at the time.

(It was Trek on the TRS-80 though that put the hook in me.)

My father recently gave me a big pile of stuff from my childhood (cleaning out the attic) and this was mixed in. I think he must have acquired it during HIS teenage years, since he would have been in high school at the time. It was fun looking it over and it makes me wonder whether it might not be a bad idea to return to paper exercises for students in some form.
Student-as-datapath is a great idea.