From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!sri-unix!cc-treas%UCBCORY@ucb-vax.arpa(SteveWolff) Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: Commodore 64 tradein -or- Version 7 for the CARDIAC Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1162 Posted: Sat Apr 30 01:06:19 1983 Received: Mon May 2 03:25:28 1983 From: 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)