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Mandatory shout-out to Gibson's Pattern Recognition, where the main character Cayce Pollard gets involved with a miserable failing recluse intelligence agent wh
by rektide 4y ago
Mandatory shout-out to Gibson's Pattern Recognition, where the main character Cayce Pollard gets involved with a miserable failing recluse intelligence agent who is obsessed with these mechanical calculators & the Curta specifically.
Thankfully there is a writeup available, for jogging of memories or hearing about it, https://www.google.com/amp/s/blue-ant.tumblr.com/post/31566333412/the-curta-in-a-subplot-of-pattern-recognition/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/blue-ant.tumblr.com/post/315663...