As a writer, you might dither a while over a stack of computer magazines and then plump for an Osborne 1 (Ralph Ellison) or a Wangwriter (Stephen King).
What he had was a printout of "the assembler third pass listing" for the BT-76 program — a stack of computer paper still joined together at the folds which was four or five inches high.
Entering the lab, the first thing you think is, "so, this is it?" There's not much to see except a worn-looking blue-gray carpet, a stack of computer equipment and a weird looking helmet attached to a fat electronic umbilical cord.
"I'm launching my political career," he said, nervously biting a knuckle, and then he walked up to a lectern that had been fashioned from a stack of old computers.
Google has flown a small team to Iqaluit, the largest town in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, armed with their warmest winter gear, a stack of laptop computers and a 18kg (40lbackpack-mountedtelescopicopicamerara.
Once settled in Paris in a sleek penthouse apartment with a gym, an Eiffel Tower view and a stack of six computer screens beside his desk, Stéphane acquires an attractive housekeeper, portentously named France (Karin Viard).
"I remember when I was around 6," she said, "I walked out of my bedroom into the kitchen, poured a glass of water and then picked up a stack of serrated computer paper and pulled the sheets around the living room in a complete circle.
It was equipped with a ninety-thousand-dollar lidar unit on the roof, sixty-four laseighteight cameras, and a stack of liquid-cooled computer hard drives in the trunk, which emitted a gentle hum.
Mathematicians are much easier to get hold of than quantum computers, and do not require any fancy technology to work (a computer, a stack of paper and a bin will suffice).
When she holes up "in a cocoon" with a stack of reference books and her computer, she writes from 6 to 20 questions in a morning, she said.
