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Babbage’s 19th-century “difference engine” on display in Mountain View

December 10th, 2009 link to (permalink)

Charles Babbage is cited as the father of modern computing — although perhaps “uncle” would be more accurate, since his designs never actually saw completion and computing is based on totally different principles.

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