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Submission + - Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company (hackaday.com)

Submitted by szczys on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @12:08PM

szczys writes: The CRC Handbook is one great example of how access to information has changed over the years. Now, you open up Google and find your answers. In decades past, hard data needed to solve engineering problems was embodied in volumes of text known as Databooks. One of the best known was the Chemical Rubber Company Handbook. Don't let the name fool you, the CRC Handbook contained traits, properties, equations, and much more on all kinds of materials and techniques for using them. It's still around today and has one big advantage over our searchable digital lives: you know you can trust the accuracy of the information in those books at face value while online information requires validation.

Comment Re:Thanks, just a pity that it does not work with (Score 1) 37

by Al Williams on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:57PM (#43547963) Attached to: Old Educational Computer Resurrected As a Spreadsheet

Thought about doing it in OO or even Google Docs. However, the target schools all seem to have Excel. But a port would be great.

Comment Re:PAPAC (Score 1) 37

by Al Williams on Thursday April 25, 2013 @01:52PM (#43547905) Attached to: Old Educational Computer Resurrected As a Spreadsheet

That's cool. I wonder if I should try to get this in OpenSCAD and 3-D print the pieces instead of making them with paper?

Submission + - Old Educational Computer Resurrected as a Spreadsheet (drdobbs.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:12AM

An anonymous reader writes: Back in the 60's 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.

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