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> "I like your computer," she said. "It looks like it was made by Indians or something." > Chia looked down at her sandbenders. Turned off the red switch. "Cor
by johnchristopher 8y ago
> "I like your computer," she said. "It looks like it was made by Indians or something."
> Chia looked down at her sandbenders. Turned off the red switch. "Coral," she said. "These are turquoise. The ones that look like ivory are the inside of a kind of nut. Renewable."
> "The rest is silver?"
> "Aluminum," Chia said. "They melt old cans they dig up on the beach cast it in sand molds. These panels are micarta. That's linen with this resin in it."
For the twenty years of Idoru they could have sown some discrete references to Gibson :).
- Lio 8y agoThis is exactly what I was thinking about. :D It’s been a while since I read it but I seem to remember Chia was able upgrade her system. It would be nice to see a System 76 offer logic board upgrades for the case too. I mean you can get motherboards from anyone but if you get them from System 76 you know it’s got good Linux support.