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7.0 - Voice

[Private to Chromie]
Madam, I've been directed by my warden to seek work. Since I am already somewhat familiar with the library, I would like to know if there is room for another among your staff. The lab is full and I do not want to work with the ill or with food.

[Private to Sherlock] (after the successful conclusion of the discussion with Chromie)
I have employment, as dictated. The lab being rather saturated, Chromie has accepted my help in the library.
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[personal profile] no_fastolfe 2011-10-18 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I can code it in an evening. ...whether I will be granted access by the Admiral to put it onto a communicator is quite another thing. But perhaps if a computer terminal could be added to the network...
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[personal profile] strangehistorian 2011-10-19 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not familiar with that term. Hold on just a moment.

[A beat as she flips back in her mental copy of Brittanica.]

Ah! A device to enable the operator to see and correct the words as they are being typed into a computer by a keyboard.

...Now, what is a computer?
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[personal profile] no_fastolfe 2011-10-19 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vasilia's lips go thin, the impression rather like she's eaten something sour. But she reigns it in.]

A computer is a... logical processor. Consisting generally of a keyboard for input, a screen and possibly printer for output, and the ability to quickly perform billions of mathematical and logical operations. [She holds up her sleek little communicator] This is a computer, although not a very powerful one, and it is specialized to communications.

...you really should have one in the library, it would make recording the new books easier. [Haha, Vasilia, assuming a database could keep up with this particular library]
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[personal profile] strangehistorian 2011-10-19 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah! I see, thank you. All of the definitions in the book are very recursive. I think we may invent something similar on Azeroth!
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[personal profile] no_fastolfe 2011-10-19 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you close, presently? Such computing is the first step dowager true automation--which allows hu- the species possessing it to advance geometrically once achieved.
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[personal profile] strangehistorian 2011-10-19 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
We do have crude automaton constructs, but they tend to be clumsy and prone to explosions.
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[personal profile] no_fastolfe 2011-10-20 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Based on mechanical logic, I assume?
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[personal profile] strangehistorian 2011-10-20 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I really do not know, I have only seen completed ones. I would assume so.
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[personal profile] no_fastolfe 2011-10-20 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I should like to see one one day!
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