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Uncle Slacky (uncleslacky@federate.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 20:28:38 JST Uncle Slacky
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@TheDialecticalCommunist @Radical_EgoCom Doesn't look like it.

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Uncle Slacky (uncleslacky@federate.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 09:08:43 JST Uncle Slacky
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@Radical_EgoCom Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_(novel)
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  Red Star (novel)
  
  Red Star (Russian: Красная звезда, romanized: Krasnaya zvezda) is a science fiction novel by Russian writer Alexander Bogdanov, published in 1908, about a communist society on Mars. The first edition was published in St. Petersburg in 1908, before eventually being republished in Moscow and Petrograd in 1918, and then again in Moscow in 1922. Set in early Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and additionally on a fictional socialist society on Mars, the novel tells the story of Leonid, a Russian scientist-revolutionary who travels to Mars to learn and experience their socialist system and to teach them of his own world. In the process, he becomes enamored of the people and technological efficiency that he encounters in this new world. An English translation by Charles Rougle was published in 1984. Plot summary Part I Leonid, the narrator and protagonist of the story, is a Bolshevik revolutionary and mathematician living in St. Petersburg. The novel...
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Uncle Slacky (uncleslacky@federate.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 18:43:26 JST Uncle Slacky
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@cstross The Olivetti Programma 101 came out in 1965: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101
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  The Olivetti Programma 101, also known as Perottina or P101, is one of the first "all in one" commercial desktop programmable calculators, although not the first. Produced by Italian manufacturer Olivetti, based in Ivrea, Piedmont, and invented by the Italian engineer Pier Giorgio Perotto, the P101 used many features of large computers of that period. It was launched at the 1964 New York World's Fair; volume production started in 1965. A futuristic design for its time, the Programma 101 was priced at $3,200 (equivalent to $30,900 in 2023). About 44,000 units were sold, primarily in the US. It is usually called a printing programmable calculator or desktop calculator because its arithmetic instructions correspond to calculator operations, while its instruction set (which allows for conditional jump) and structure qualifies it as a stored-program computer. Design The Programma 101 was designed by Olivetti engineer Pier Giorgio Perotto in Ivrea. The styling, attributed to Marco Zanuso but in reality by Mario Bellini, was ergonomical and innovative for the time. Some of the design was based on a 1961 Olivetti computer...

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