Valentines Day by Bob Mayer

Valentines Day by Bob Mayer

Author:Bob Mayer [Mayer, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Time Travel, Science Fiction, Action Adventure
ISBN: 9781621253082
Google: 5IGpxAEACAAJ
Amazon: B072VTWC4C
Goodreads: 43130613
Publisher: Cool Gus
Published: 2017-07-23T23:00:00+00:00


“Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans—every thing in short but the enchantress of numbers.” Charles Babbage reference the Countess of Lovelace, the first to create the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. In 1840. Before the machine to use the algorithm had even been invented.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 14 February 1946

MOMS WASN’T THERE, and then she was there, but she’d sort of always been there. It was the best way to explain how she arrived, becoming part of her current time and place without fanfare or excitement among those around her. She was in the bubble of this day, not before, and hopefully she wouldn’t be here afterward.

There was also no fanfare because she was in a bathroom, standing in front of a cracked mirror. There was no one else in the room, which was easy to determine because the stalls had no doors on them. The bathroom was cold, drafty and one of the sinks kept up a steady drip that Moms instinctively knew couldn’t be stopped.

Moms went to the door, creaked it open, and peered into the hallway. Also empty. She accessed the download for a schematic of the building in which ENIAC was housed and oriented herself. The woman’s bathroom, the only one in the entire building, was, of course, the most remote. An afterthought in a previously all male domain.

Moms exited, went along the hall to a fire exit, and then descended a level to the main floor.

She pushed open a door and paused. The room in front of her was filled with the mainframe of a computer, which had less capacity than the pocket-sized satphone she’d left behind in the team locker room. The walls were lined with computer consoles, hundreds of cables looping along the front of them, dozens and dozens of white lights flickering.

It appeared to be chaos, but Moms knew from the download that making sense of that chaos was the work of the ENIAC six. A door swung open and a group of women walked in, one of them carrying a large cardboard box which she carried to a table in the middle of the room. She tipped it slightly and a slew of red and green Ping-Pong balls bounced out.

It is 1946. In a speech in Missouri, Winston Churchill mentions an Iron Curtain descending in Europe; the Japanese General who commanded the Death March is executed; Syria becomes independent of France; the first American V-2 is launched at White Sands; at Los Alamos, Louis Slotin receives a fatal dose of radiation from the Demon Core; a Jewish terrorist group bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 90, mostly British personnel; the first Tupperware is sold; in the last reported mass lynching in the United States two African-American couples are killed in Georgia; the first theme park opens in the United States, nine years before Disneyland, called Santa Claus Land; Indian Prime Minister Nehru asks the United States and Soviet Union



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