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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
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Subject: Re: Ref. Computers in SF
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 13:45:33 EDT
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> From: Richard.G.Turner, PERI-ET, USARI  <rturner@usadhq2>
> 
> The recent query about stories with computers reminded me of one I really
> enjoyed several years ago. I don't remember title or author, but it seems
> that it was on the line of short-story, novelette, length.
> 
> The story was a series of vignettes taking part at various points in man's
> history, starting with the computer era and ending (or re-beginning) after
> the universe had run down from entropy. All that was left at that time was a
> computer which had evolved to the point that it existed as pure energy.
> 
> Anyone else remember this one?
> 
> rick

Yes.  One of my favorites.  The author is Asimov, and the
title is...er...I forget.  The computers are called x-AC,
where x is galactic, cocmic, universal, etc.  It deals
with Man asking: "Can you reverse entropy?"
			-- SKZB