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A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)

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Post by theolivenbaum »

schubart wrote: post #10
imglorp wrote: post #9

The original: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X39.81 10,000 parts. "The gates are all TTL (Tinker Toy Logic)" :-)

"It could have been built by any six-year old with 500 boxes of tinker toys and a PDP-10."

Or many years after with some custom cut acrylic pieces: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7wp70Xyxxw

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jhbadger wrote: post #6
jcmeyrignac wrote: post #4

In France in 1982, the magazine Science & Vie published a cardboard computer simulator, named "Ordinapoche". It was designed by Joel de Rosnay. Here is a cached copy in french: https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%... It helped me understand computers!

This in is a tradition of earlier simulated ("cardboard") computers such as the 1965 "Little Man Computer" or the 1968 CARDIAC. Like Ordinapoche, they were basically aids to help a person step through a machine language program, with the person performing the low-level actions themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_man_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...

"What do you call it when you're prosecuted for illegally importing cardboard computers?"

"CARDIAC arrest (ba-dum tsss)"

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askiiart wrote: post #12
jhbadger wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This in is a tradition of earlier simulated ("cardboard") computers such as the 1965 "Little Man Computer" or the 1968 CARDIAC. Like Ordinapoche, they were basically aids to help a person step through a machine language program, with the person performing the low-level actions themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_man_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...

"What do you call it when you're prosecuted for illegally importing cardboard computers?" "CARDIAC arrest (ba-dum tsss)"

Yes, very funny. But they knew what they were doing when they named it that. There was a series of early computers named ILLIAC (because they were created at the University of Illinois and after ENIAC, a famous computer that was "the first" digital programmable computer by some definitions of those words). The illiac artery connects to the heart, so CARDIAC makes sense (also of course, it was made of cardboard)
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