One of us wore the computer, which had twelve transistors and was the size of a pack of cigarettes. Data was input with switches hidden in the wearer’s shoes and operated by his big toes. The computer’s forecast was transmitted by radio, using a modification of the inexpensive, widely available equipment ordinarily used to remotely control model airplanes. The other person, the bettor, would wear a radio receiver, which played the musical tones telling him on which group of numbers to bet. We two confederates would act like strangers.
