On Sep 8, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Randall Barlow wrote:
Mark Turner wrote:
P.S. Curta calulators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta_calculator
Here is a cool link that is a flash demo of the Curta:
http://www.vcalc.net/curta_simulator_en.htm
The Curta plays a small role in William Gibson's "Pattern
Recognition". Kinda shot up on eBay after the book was published.
-T
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