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[[File:Hollerith_Punched_Card.jpg|thumb|Hollerith punched card. Steganographic analysis suggests that the card maybe carry several hundred bytes of concealed data.]]'''Hollerith''' (? - ?) | [[File:Hollerith_Punched_Card.jpg|thumb|Hollerith punched card. Steganographic analysis suggests that the card maybe carry several hundred bytes of concealed data.]]'''Hollerith''' (? - ?) better known as "'''The Card Man'''", is an [[Owner-operated transdimensional corporation]]. | ||
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. | |||
His methods are secret, but assumed to involved the [[Gnomon algorithm]], [[Demon (nonfiction)|demons]], or both. | |||
He is also a gunslinger, less by choice than necessity. | |||
Hollerith and [[Havelock]] are friends and allies. Both tend to reside in frontier towns, often the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
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== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Demon (nonfiction)]] | |||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | |||
* [[Havelock]] - friend and colleague. | * [[Havelock]] - friend and colleague. | ||
* [[Ticketology]] | * [[Ticketology]] | ||
Revision as of 18:39, 11 August 2016
Hollerith (? - ?) better known as "The Card Man", is an Owner-operated transdimensional corporation.
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.
He is also a gunslinger, less by choice than necessity.
Hollerith and Havelock are friends and allies. Both tend to reside in frontier towns, often the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Demon (nonfiction)
- Gnomon algorithm
- Havelock - friend and colleague.
- Ticketology