Victorian computing
Victorian computing
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- ukit0
Yeah primitive although the basic design was similar in some way to what we have now.
"Babbage's machines were among the first mechanical computers, although they were not actually completed, largely because of funding problems and personality issues. He directed the building of some steam-powered machines that achieved some success, suggesting that calculations could be mechanized.
Although Babbage's machines were mechanical and unwieldy, their basic architecture was very similar to a modern computer. The data and program memory were separated, operation was instruction based, the control unit could make conditional jumps and the machine had a separate I/O unit."
- If you're into this stuff check out a book By Steven Levy "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution"designbot
- Also Crypto...I bet you would dig them. Fictional titles but there's lots of cool computer history etc.designbot
- Apparently William Gibson (sci fi author) also wrote a book about Babbage and Ada Lovelace (the woman above)ukit
- nice, if you happen to stumble upon the title send it my way.designbot