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Group participation computer demonstration

By E. M. McCormick
Communications of the ACM, September 1963, Vol. 6 No. 9, Pages 573-574
10.1145/367593.367647
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Engelbart1 has reported on some demonstrations in which a group functions as various parts of a digital computer. These demonstrations are concerned with binary operations including addition. However, there are occasions when it is desirable to have a group participate in a simulation which is not at this detailed level of computer operation. This note suggests a demonstration which allows a group to simulate the execution of a computer routine itself.

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