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Imagine how the computer revolution would have looked if Babbage's analytical machine was built and worked in the late 1800s or early 1900s.
by bmh100 12y ago
Imagine how the computer revolution would have looked if Babbage's analytical machine was built and worked in the late 1800s or early 1900s.
- Nzen 12y agoAt that time there's still only a world market for five computers. (With apologies to Thomas Watson who is often miscredited with saying so.) Maybe the US Civil War would be more fluid given ballistic tables on par with WWII. Maybe the Great Depression is partly blamed on the use of a precursor to David Li's Gaussian copula function. I had hopes for Plan28, John Graham-Cumming's project to digitally model, then build the Analytical engine. Unfortunately, the project has gone dark. Its twitter feed last updated in June with a promise of investigating Babbage's blueprints. https://twitter.com/plan28 https://twitter.com/plan28