(This is one of the things that makes *Science Comics Computers: How Digital Hardware Works* such an amazing kids' book! By illustrating how a computer's operations are built up from simple boolean lo...
Not long after my CARDiac,, my dad brought home an Apple ][+, which came with a schematic that revealed the inner workings of the machine in ways that I found visually striking, if significantly less accessible than the CARDiac:
https://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Apple%20II%20Items/Hardware/II_&_II+/Schematic/Apple%20II%20Schematics.pdf
(For me, at least. For the legendary hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang, it was the start of a journey that turned him into one of the world's virtuoso reverse-engineers and science communicators):
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/quantity-break/#so-many-chips
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https://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Apple%20II%20Items/Hardware/II_&_II+/Schematic/Apple%20II%20Schematics.pdf
(For me, at least. For the legendary hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang, it was the start of a journey that turned him into one of the world's virtuoso reverse-engineers and science communicators):
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/quantity-break/#so-many-chips
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