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My thinking exactly. He could've created a market for adding machines and, building on commercial success, use revenues to build more ambitious machines.
by DemocracyFTW2 2y ago
My thinking exactly. He could've created a market for adding machines and, building on commercial success, use revenues to build more ambitious machines.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoAnd he may well have done, if Ada Lovelace hadn't got cancer: she had managed to convince him to let her run his business, leaving him to deal only with R&D.