Saw the doco - remarkable piece of kit.
Fascinating stuff.
But at least Babbage had a really spiffy girlfriend, Byron's daughter Ada
Lovelace, who raised the philosophically infamous - 'Lady Lovelace's
Objection'. So named by Alan Turing.
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On 16/11/2013, at 7:48 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> Indeed, very cool. Clever people those ancient Greeks.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:23 PM, <usher99@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> CG wrties:
>> I thought you started with Charles Babbage.
>>
>> I'll call your Charles Babbage and raise one Antikythera
>> mechanism--first known analog computer.
>>
>> Wicked cool. A tinkerer made a working model with period tools and
>> materials. It has offset pins and other ingenious items to account
>> for anomalous/eccentric orbits.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
>>
>>
>> Sometimes analog, Mike
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