"We have been pecking away at Babbage’s original design drawings for some while now and have found with regret that we are unable to reverse engineer a coherent

"We have been pecking away at Babbage’s original design drawings for some while now and have found with regret that we are unable to reverse engineer a coherent and consistent understanding of the Analytical Engine from the mechanical drawings alone. " http://blog.plan28.org/2016/05/spring-2016-report-to-computer.html http://blog.plan28.org/2016/05/spring-2016-report-to-compute... If you read further, it becomes pretty clear that it's more or less a theoretical idea. A great one though, granted.