Brainiac (toy)

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Brainiac was a 1966 toy computer. It was Edmund Berkeley's reduced-cost, lower-functional version of the 1966 Geniac. The Geniac and Brainiac were toys, billed as "computers" (but actually merely rotary-switch construction sets). The name was a reference to the -IAC ending in the names of many early computers, e.g. 1946 ENIAC ("Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer"), 1952 MANIAC, 1952 ILLIAC, and 1953 JOHNNIAC.