When Chester W. Chester inherits an omniscient computer, he and his business partner Case Mulvihill arrange to promote the machine as if it were a time machine.
Now, this computer seems to be able to fake up just about any scene you want to take a look at. You name it, it sets it up. Chester, we’ve got the greatest side-show attraction in circus history! We book the public in at so much a head, and show ’em Daily Life in Ancient Rome, or Michelangelo sculpting the Pietà, or Napoleon leading the charge at Marengo.

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  1. The Great Time Machine Hoax by Keith Laumer, in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, June to August 1963.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Keith Laumer