Pierri, Florencia wrote
I wanted to bring your attention to a new exhibit we have at the Sarnoff Collection that might be of interest to all of you, *Playing with Innovation: The Games of Joseph Weisbecker*
I've had the pleasure of meeting Florencia at the Collection. I had some small participation in the exhibit, by evaluating the FRED 2 computer which will be part of the "Games" exhibit. I've described the likely FRED 2 on this Web page: http://www.retrotechnology.com/memship/cosmac_fred2.html That page has links to another Web page, about the "System 00" at the Collection. It's likely the earliest prototype of the COSMAC 1802 architecture. The FRED 2 has a two-chip implementation of what became the 1802 microprocessor. System 00 is pure TTL logic - but implements the same COSMAC instruction set. The exhibit emphasizes Weisbecker's experience as a board-game and game-toy designer and producer, of "computer logic" games. The FRED/COSMAC, represents the computer-logic flavor he put into many of his games; and his day-job as RCA engineer. Some of those games, were implemented as the earliest programs on the COSMAC computers in the Collection. Joe's daughter Joyce has had recent acknowledgement, as "the first female commercial/indie video game designer", from her game-programming work on the earliest COSMACs. On the exhibit Web pages, is the RCA COSMAC Microtutor; a predecessor to the COSMAC ELF (Popular Electronics Aug 1976 article) and to generations of "Elf" COSMAC computers. The VCFed museum, has a Microtutor and other RCA microcomputer development products. I brought the Collection's Microtutor to VCF-East a few years ago. I"ve been supporting a COSMAC ELF derivative for some years now, on my Web site. Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT info