[rollei_list] Re: Slipsticks and Geeks
- From: Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:26:52 -0400
On Tuesday, August 22, 2006, at 10:35PM, Kenneth Frazier <kennybod@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
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>On Aug 22, 2006, at 10:05 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
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>> One of the fellows who was mentoring me had a Curta, the first one
>> I ever saw. What an amazing piece if machinery.
>>
>
>The Curta figures prominently in William Gibson's latest novel,
>Pattern Recognition. It's worth a read, especially for slipsticky
>geek types, and is easily his most accessible novel yet. He's
>getting downright lucid. :-)
I passed on the Curta, but bought the mac cube, which I'm writing this on,
after reading that novel. I have two normal slide rules, and one lecture
theater model which I hope to make a computer desk out of some day.
Larry cuffe
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>Ken
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