Related: It's a crime that the mechanical Charles Babbage Analytical Engine (1837) hasn't been built. Just found this recent progress report on an effort to do

Related: It's a crime that the mechanical Charles Babbage Analytical Engine (1837) hasn't been built. Just found this recent progress report on an effort to do just that (written by Doron Swade [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doron_Swade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doron_Swade], posted by HN user jgrahamc): https://blog.plan28.org/2023/03/spring-2023-report-to-computer.html https://blog.plan28.org/2023/03/spring-2023-report-to-comput... From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_engine: The analytical engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms as Turing-complete. It don't think it gets much more steampunk than this in actual history.