''EEVIAC Operational Index and Reference Guide, Including Other Modern Computational Devices'' is the 5th full-length studio album by Man or Astroman?. E.E.V.I.A.C. is an

acronym An acronym is a type of abbreviation consisting of a phrase whose only pronounced elements are the initial letters or initial sounds of words inside that phrase. Acronyms are often spelled with the initial Letter (alphabet), letter of each wor ...

and stands for "Embedded Electronic Variably Integrated Astro Console" (also known as the "EEVIAC Mainframe Supercomputer") and is a play on

ENIAC ENIAC (; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first Computer programming, programmable, Electronics, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC was ...

, which is sometimes hailed as the first modern computer. Man or Astroman? actually built a mockup of a

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to have onstage for this album.Birdstuff interview in Satellite News
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Track listing

# "Interstellar Hardrive" # "D:Contamination" # "U-235/PU-239" # "Domain of the Human Race" # "Theme from EEVIAC" # "A Reversal of Polarity" # "Fractionalized Reception of a Scrambled Transmission" # "Engines of Difference" # "Psychology of A.I. (Numbers Follow Answers)" # "Krasnoyask-26" # "Within the Mainframe, Impaired Vision from Inoperable Cataracts Can Become a New Impending Nepotism" # "As Estrelas Agora Elas Estão Mortas" # "_____/Myopia" # "Automated Liner Notes Sequence" ( unlisted)

References

Man or Astro-man? albums 1999 albums Touch and Go Records albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub