The ORACULON CT-64 is a fictional vintage scientific I Ching calculator inspired by Douglas Adams' novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul — the device Dirk Gently bought for £20 and used to tell fortunes. This calculator cannot produce an answer above four. Results may include a suffusion of yellow, the number of pebbles in Wales, or a puddle of darkness. Manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. To consult the oracle, press the blue button marked Red. The instruction booklet apologises for the missing pages. Do not eat the device even if it advise so.
Welcome the proud owner! This electronic abacus of fortune reckon the sums, perform the science, AND ALSO foretell the unknowable across 64 hexagrams. Truly we live in the future, which this device already know about.
Operation is simple, and also mysterious: press what you wish; receive what you receive. Should the answer arrive instead as a colour, a mood, or a quantity of soup — this is not error, this is the device thinking. WHY it think so is explain upon the page that are missing (see below).
To CONSULT THE ORACLE: concentrate SOULFULLY upon the question which besiege you, enjoy the silence, and on achieving inner harmony press the RED button. The reading, translate from the Chinese by way of the Japanese, have enjoy many adventure on the road; any strangeness is therefore not error but TRAVEL.
WARRANTY: Device guarantee against everything except disappointment, water, fate, and the colour yellow. Battery not include. Future not include. Do not eat the device even if it advise so.