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

    By W. W. Skupeldyckle

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    Norm Venner's fancy was pretty well fixed on thoughts of electronic calculators—until the invention started making passes at the inventor!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateFeb 13, 2015
    ISBN9781633554474
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      The Romantic Analogue - W. W. Skupeldyckle

      The Romantic Analogue

      By W.W. Skupeldyckle

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

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      First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2012

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

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

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      Mathematicians 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

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