Hear the Arithmetic Sum

Ward carried out interesting calculations on computer networks with only one page of assembler. See Cybords

These little computers were so inexpensive that he would buy 50 at a time. A message was just an electrical pulse, high or low, repeated stochastically until communication happened a few tenths of a second later. Each part had to interface pins, one sending, the other listening. A computer could listen to multiple senders at the same time and chance would have it hear the arithmetic sum of both sources.

A message was just an electrical pulse, high or low, repeated stochastically until communication happened a few tenths of a second later. Each part had to interface pins, one sending, the other listening. A computer could listen to multiple senders at the same time and chance would have it Hear the Arithmetic Sum of both sources.

See also "Complex Systems (Parallel Modulators and Parallel Carriers)" page by Howard Massey