CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation

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  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Publisher Name:
  • Arnav Mukhopadhyay
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows All
  • File Size:
  • 213 KB

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CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation Description

CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation, or Cardiac, for short was designed as a learning aid in order to teach high school students how computers work. The kit consisted of an instruction manual and a die-cut cardboard "computer". The computer "operated" by means of pencil and sliding cards. Any arithmetic was done in the head of the person operating the computer. The computer operated in base 10 and had 100 memory cells which could hold signed numbers from ±0 to ±999. It had an instruction set of 10 instructions which allowed CARDIAC to add, subtract, test, shift, input, output and jump.


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