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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