cc-treas%UCBCORY@ucb-vax.arpa(SteveWolff) (04/30/83)
From: Steve Wolff <cc-treas%UCBCORY@ucb-vax.arpa (Steve Wolff)> Interesting that you should mention the Cardiac. In about 1970 or so my junior-high computer club received a bunch of these things free, supposedly for the purpose of learning how a computer works. We played around with them for a few days and then they were forgotten, stuffed into drawers or even the 'round file'. Imagine my surprise when I came to U.C. Berkeley in 1980 and found that they were (and still are) a REQUIRED TEXT for the introductory CS class, selling for ~$9.00 !! The cheapest computer ever with an architecture that rivals IBM 360/370 as the longest lived! (But also the slowest, with a <1 Hz CPU...) Steve Wolff (ucbcory.cc-treas@BERKELEY)