[COFF] Knuth

Nemo Nusquam cym224 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 11:32:40 AEST 2020


On 08/02/20 21:02, Dan Cross wrote:
> Interesting article.
>
> I don't believe that's a calculator. Rather, it looks like a normal, 
> if slightly grotty, keyboard.
It does seem like a keyboard, albeit with unusual extra keys around.  (A 
larger image is here: 
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/12/18/science/18SCI-KNUTH3/merlin_148127301_135dcdcd-2f22-47d1-a749-1b0d997864e5-articleLarge.jpg)

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>         - Dan C.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2020, 8:51 PM Paul Palmer <paul.allan.palmer at gmail.com 
> <mailto:paul.allan.palmer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Nice article
>
>     https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html
>
>
>     Near the end, in the picture labelled "a few notes" you can see
>     the corner of what looks like a calculator. Can anybody identify it?
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