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Re:Curta: a mechanical calculator by signa11 on Friday July 17, 2015 @08:22PM (#9906090)
wasn't this the underlying theme of gibson's pattern-recognition book?
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Re:Curta: a mechanical calculator by Turbo_hedgehog on Saturday July 18, 2015 @02:10AM (#9906743)
Yes. There's even a section on it in the article.
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Re:Curta: a mechanical calculator by mayoff on Friday July 17, 2015 @09:52PM (#9906297)
It was more like a McGuffin.
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