Old Educational Computer Resurrected As a Spreadsheet 37
An anonymous reader writes "Back in the '60s, Bell Labs created a 'paper computer' called CARDIAC so students could learn the fundamentals of computers. Dr. Dobb's recreates the paper computer in an Excel spreadsheet and hints they will show how it gets ported to an FPGA in future installments."
Blue Screen (Score:4, Funny)
On the CARDIAC the "Blue Screen" STOP error is actually implemented as an ARREST.
Re:BARDIAC (Score:3, Funny)
A Beowulf cluster of old times? No I can't imagine how that would work.. I might soon be able to simulate a beowulf cluster of BARDIAC on phone-level hardware though.