A California difference engine
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scarlettinaA difference engine comes to Silicon Valley--CNET
"MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--'Excuse me, Richard, we have a very large parcel.'
With those words, spoken by John Shulver of London's Science Museum, a day of supreme geekery unfolded at the Computer History Museum here.
To be precise, the package in question was the delivery and installation of a difference engine, a brand new model of a 19th-century-era machine designed--but never actually built--by Charles Babbage. It was designed to be a mechanical calculator which can determine polynomial functions."
The piece includes lots of pictures. Go feast thine eyes, my fellow tech geeks. It is a sight to behold.
"MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--'Excuse me, Richard, we have a very large parcel.'
With those words, spoken by John Shulver of London's Science Museum, a day of supreme geekery unfolded at the Computer History Museum here.
To be precise, the package in question was the delivery and installation of a difference engine, a brand new model of a 19th-century-era machine designed--but never actually built--by Charles Babbage. It was designed to be a mechanical calculator which can determine polynomial functions."
The piece includes lots of pictures. Go feast thine eyes, my fellow tech geeks. It is a sight to behold.