Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!elsie!mark From: mark@elsie.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Nearly Prehistoric Computers Message-ID: <803@elsie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 09:27:41 EST Article-I.D.: elsie.803 Posted: Fri Feb 3 09:27:41 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 02:52:10 EST References: <588@seismo.UUCP> Organization: NIH-LCM, Bethesda, MD Lines: 15 When I was in high school (circa 1965) I had a friend in the Psych Department at Colorado College. I used to help her and others there program a "computer" used for Operant Conditioning experiments on pidgins (you know, peck when the light comes on red for the third time and get a grain of food). The computer supported conditional branching, subroutines, etc., and it was programmed by *plug-wires*. I fell in love with it (high school nerds do that sort of thing). Imagine: the input was by hard wires; the output was by Carrier Pidgin! -- Mark J. Miller NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC UUCP: decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!elsie!mark Phone: (301) 496-5688