 Millenium Counter (1996)
Steel case, flourescent display, microcontroller;
10x12x4"; 10lbs.
Status:
collection of Renny Pritikin
Composed of a small steel box with a blue alphanumeric display on its top, this machine
counts down the seconds in each millennium. At midnight, December 31, 1999 it will display
a quote from the Rubyat, load the number of seconds in the next 1,000 years, and
begin again.
 For most of its life, it will display a very large number,
decrementing each second. However, once every thousand years it will display the following
message: "Ah! my Beloved, come fill the cup that clears today of past regrets and
future fears. For tomorrow-- why tomorrow, I may be myself with yesterday's seven thousand
years."
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