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3D render of old tv set with animated static on its screen, as if tuned to a dead channel.

  • mindbleach
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    8 months ago

    IIRC, Gibson had never used a computer, at all, before writing Neuromancer. At most he’d seen some Apple II microcomputer affair sitting idle. Hence the cyberdeck design: compact, integrated, luggable, all solid-state components. When he finally used a PC he was primarily struck by how loud the damn thing was.