On Tuesday, August 22, 2006, at 10:35PM, Kenneth Frazier <kennybod@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >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. :-) 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 > >Ken >----------------------------------- >The Rev. Kenneth Frazier >Connecticut Conference, United Church of Christ >---------------------------------- >Current Leica Photography (PESO): >http://tinyurl.com/6sc2r > >Current Medium Format Photos: >http://tinyurl.com/bjvfn > > > > >--- >Rollei List > >- Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >- Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' >in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > >- Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with >'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org > >- Online, searchable archives are available at >//www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list > > > --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list