[TriLUG] Computer sale at tonight's meeting

[Rick DeNatale]

On 9/8/05, Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 8, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Randall Barlow wrote:
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> > Mark Turner wrote:
> >
> >
> >> P.S. Curta calulators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta_calculator
> >>
> >
> > Here is a cool link that is a flash demo of the Curta:
> >
> > http://www.vcalc.net/curta_simulator_en.htm
> 
> The Curta plays a small role in William Gibson's "Pattern
> Recognition". Kinda shot up on eBay after the book was published.

And it took NO role in Bob's talk tonight.

I remember Curtas from when they were the hot ticket for  TSD rally
navigators who ran in equipped.