[rollei_list] Re: Slipsticks and Geeks
- From: Kenneth Frazier <kennybod@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:37:27 -0400
On Aug 22, 2006, at 10:05 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
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. :-)
Ken
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