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Fernando J. Corbató, a Common card
Fernando José "Corby" Corbató was an American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 96
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,900
Power 96 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He won the 1990 ACM Turing Award.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fernando J. Corbató article was read about 9,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Fernando J. Corbató
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Fernando J. Corbató (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jason Dorfman, MIT CSAIL photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
