[geeks] Difference Engine at the Computer History Museum

Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Thu Apr 10 16:46:12 CDT 2008


On Apr 10, 2008, at 17:35 , Mike Meredith wrote:


> The Difference Engine was a very fancy calculator; not programmable
> unlike the Analytical Engine. As to running Vista, I'm not sure  
> Babbage
> ever envisioned a mouse :)

Not in exactly the same way, no.

Mary Shelly on the other hand... she might have considered one being  
connected to a machine.



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