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'''Hollerith''' (? - ?) better known as "'''The Card Man'''", is a time traveler who trades in data. | |||
In his role as The Card Man, he buys, stores, and sells data using [[Hollerith card (nonfiction)|punched cards]] which he has modified to acts as random-access, read-write devices, typically with one or more steganographic encryption channels. High-end cards may incorporate [[artificial intelligence (nonfiction)]] -- or perhaps smarter demons. | In his role as The Card Man, he buys, stores, and sells data using [[Hollerith card (nonfiction)|punched cards]] which he has modified to acts as random-access, read-write devices, typically with one or more steganographic encryption channels. High-end cards may incorporate [[artificial intelligence (nonfiction)]] -- or perhaps smarter demons. | ||
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File:Paper tape relay operation.jpg|link=Unexpectedly Hanging Chad|Card Man is technical advisor on documentary film ''[[Unexpectedly Hanging Chad]]''. | |||
File:Hollerith_Punched_Card.jpg|[[Hollerith card (nonfiction)|Hollerith punched card]]. Steganographic analysis suggests that this card maybe carry several hundred bytes of concealed data. | |||
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* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | * [[Gnomon algorithm]] | ||
* [[Havelock]] - friend and colleague. | * [[Havelock]] - friend and colleague. | ||
* [[ | * [[Owner-operated transdimensional corporation]] | ||
* [[The Hollerithms]] | |||
* [[Ticketology]] - the science, or pseudo-science, of punched cards and destiny. | * [[Ticketology]] - the science, or pseudo-science, of punched cards and destiny. | ||
Latest revision as of 18:44, 20 November 2021
Hollerith (? - ?) better known as "The Card Man", is a time traveler who trades in data.
In his role as The Card Man, he buys, stores, and sells data using punched cards which he has modified to acts as random-access, read-write devices, typically with one or more steganographic encryption channels. High-end cards may incorporate artificial intelligence (nonfiction) -- or perhaps smarter demons.
His methods are secret, but assumed to involved the Gnomon algorithm, demons, or both.
Technically, he functions as an owner-operated transdimensional corporation, but he prefers to call himself "an ordinary guy doing his job".
He is also a gunslinger, less by choice than necessity.
Hollerith and Havelock are friends and allies. Both tend to reside in frontier towns, and travel between them when not residing, often during the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In the News
Card Man is technical advisor on documentary film Unexpectedly Hanging Chad.
Hollerith punched card. Steganographic analysis suggests that this card maybe carry several hundred bytes of concealed data.
Fiction cross-reference
- Demon (nonfiction)
- Gnomon algorithm
- Havelock - friend and colleague.
- Owner-operated transdimensional corporation
- The Hollerithms
- Ticketology - the science, or pseudo-science, of punched cards and destiny.