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Bob Eager:

> Indeed. When I was doing my Master's, I saw undergraduates
> being taught using a 'paper computer'. 16 words of RAM, 12
> bit word. It was a set of boxes with index cards with
> contents written on them. Plus a couple of boxes for
> accumulator and flags. It was ctually a PDP-8 clone, but
> only for simplicity.

This reminds of a great site absolutely on-topic here:

  <https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/research.html>
and especially:
  <https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/paper_computing.html>

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