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📣 mg

Name of the comic where a pelican and his friends fall into a computer


Hey HN, I am trying to find the first "computer book" I read :)

It was a comic in which a pelican and his friends visit a data center.

The way I remember it, the story was that they figure out that by saying the magic word "abracadabra", you can get into a computer. And inside the computer, there are little devils doing all the computations by carrying around handkerchiefs. The handkerchiefs with a knot are the ones and the handkerchiefs without a knot are the zeros.

I remember how I learned binary encoding from this comic book when I was 12 or so. I read it in German at that time. Would be fun to read it again. But so far, I was not able to find it again.


  👤 pestatije Accepted Answer ✓
Can you tell us approximate time of publication? I'd guess a book like this doesn't get reprinted?