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From: mark@elsie.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Nearly Prehistoric Computers
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Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 09:27:41 EST
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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!

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Mark J. Miller
NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC
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