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A portfolio type for featuring items in your portfolio.

Vizzini’s Calculating Table

Portfolio 1

A minimalist calculator from Italy

A cheater’s slide rule

Portfolio 3

A relic of past dishonesty

Mario Loffredo’s elastic calculating scale

Portfolio 5

A lost precursor of the Gerber Variable Scale

Other worlds than ours

Portfolio 7

A 19th century take on Exobiology

Shrinking Megabytes

Portfolio 9

Evolution of the Hard Disk

The Sliding Gunter

Portfolio 11

A fascinating transitional device

Stephenson’s little adder

Portfolio 13

Agents wanted!

Alpina or Curta?

Portfolio 15

Battle of the handheld calculators

A sense of wonder

Portfolio 17

Some “Wow!” moments from my life around computers

Small Blue Planet

Portfolio 19

The impact of Apollo 8 on our planetary self-image

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