From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] VCF East
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 14:01:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201905142101.x4EL1x1j027122@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190514193639.8E7132199F@orac.inputplus.co.uk>
Ralph Corderoy writes:
> Hi,
>
> And if others are thinking Dave sounds familiar, like me, it's because
> he was co-developer of the CARDIAC.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_Computation
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
Dave was one of my favorite people in my group. He was the first person
that met who was absolutely brilliant in technology but couldn't spare any
cycles for things like tying his shoes.
Another interesting thing that he designed was the keyboard that eventually
got hooked up to the music playing version of the digital filter setup that
Hal Alles and Jim Kaiser designed. It had a ribbon cable the length of the
keyboard that was fed by a binary pattern, and each key had an antenna that
moved across the cable when it was pressed making it possible to determine
how far a key was pressed down.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-14 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-14 13:41 Doug McIlroy
2019-05-14 19:36 ` Ralph Corderoy
2019-05-14 21:01 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2019-05-14 21:48 ` Rob Pike
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-05-07 16:32 Noel Chiappa
2019-05-07 16:36 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-05-07 12:50 John P. Linderman
2019-05-07 14:17 ` Dan Cross
2019-05-07 14:33 ` David
2019-05-12 8:07 ` Arno Griffioen
2019-05-12 12:09 ` Rob Pike
2019-05-12 12:36 ` Ralph Corderoy
2019-05-13 12:48 ` Rob Pike
2019-05-13 16:26 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-05-07 16:51 ` arnold
2019-05-07 17:04 ` Anthony Martin
2019-05-10 4:45 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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