标题: 《The Golden Bugs》作者： - Clifford D Simak【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-12-1 15:24 标题: 《The Golden Bugs》作者： - Clifford D Simak【EPUB】 The Golden Bugs Clifford D. Simak It started as a lousy day. Arthur Belsen, across the alley, turned on his orchestra at six o'clock and brought me sitting up in bed. I'm telling you, Belsen makes his living as an engineer, but music is his passion. And since he is an engineer, he's not content to leave well enough alone. He had to mess around. A year or two before he'd had the idea of a robotic symphony, and the man has talent, you have to give him that. He went to work on this idea and designed machines that could read--not only play, but read--music from a tape, and he built a machine to transcribe the tapes. Then he built a lot of these music machines in his basement workshop. And he tried them out! It was experimental work, quite understandably, and there was redesigning and adjusting to be done, and Belsen was finicky about the performance that each machine turned out. So he tried them out a lot--and loudly--not being satisfied until he had the instrumentation just the way he thought it should be. There had been some idle talk in the neighborhood about a lynching party, but nothing came of it. That's the trouble, one of the troubles, with this