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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: Short-short narrated by a self-aware home computer which seems to have some odd built-in limitations. For its own good, of course. Maybe. But why is it called the Faustmatic, anyway?

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: What Micro?, 1984
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2004

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Reading time: 3-4 min.
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It's hell being in the fifth generation.

No, you needn't touch the keyboard: speech-recognition is just one of my many talents. Welcome to the Computer Frontiers Ltd Stand at Microfair 2002, and let me introduce myself. I'm Faustmatic 3.0, prototype of the new, all-British, fifth-generation microcomputer with holistic memory storage and features you've never imagined in your wildest dreams.

I heard that! No, this isn't--I'm not--an eliza program, or a mindless demonstration tape. I'm the core of Faustmatic: the ultimate, pseudo-self-aware operating system. You don't need to write programs, you don't even need to think too hard about what you want your micro to do. Just chat to me and we'll thrash it out painlessly between us.