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    The Romantic Analogue
    The Romantic Analogue
    The Romantic Analogue
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    The Romantic Analogue

    By Ed Emshwiller and W. W. Skupeldyckle

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Romantic Analogue - Ed Emshwiller

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      Title: The Romantic Analogue

      Author: W.W. Skupeldyckle

      Illustrator: Ed Emsh

      Release Date: April 26, 2010 [EBook #32143]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction September 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      THE

      Romantic Analogue

      By W. W. Skupeldyckle

      Illustrated by Ed Emsh

      Norm Venner's fancy was pretty well fixed on thoughts of electronic calculators—until the invention started making passes at the inventor!

      athematicians are just like people: old, young, fat, thin, male, female. This one was male, thirty-five, with steady brown eyes and a nice smile when he remembered to use it. His name was Norman Venner, and besides being a mathematical whiz generally, he had designed and built an electronic brain, or calculator, which was in some ways smarter than himself—and a lot less diffident.

      Electronic calculators are invariably given acronymic names such as BINAC, SEAC, and MANIAC, and nine out of ten of them are of the digital type. This is a nice way of saying that they count on their fingers. They're nearly as big as yachts, and cost more, but can calculate a million times faster than any human.

      Norm's machine was of the analogue type, which is less flexible, less complex, and vastly smaller and cheaper. He called it the ICWEA (ICK-wee-ah), which stood for I Can Work 'Em All! It could, too! It was especially good at deriving equations from curves, which was really something.

      Charley Oglethorpe burst into the office one morning, catching Norm in a brown study. "Hi, Genius. How

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