Wasn't the Babbage difference engine an analog computer?
Mark Roberts wrote:
"Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:40:38 +0100, Jens Bladt wrote:
By the way. My first PC was 60 MB harddrive at a retail price of 6000 USD!Oh, geez, now _that_ thread is gonna run again ... when I first used
And it's really not that long time ago :-)
computers we had to ride a bicycle to generate the power ... well when
I first used them, the monitor was a stone tablet like in "The
Flintstone" ... well when I first used them ...
Yeah, well *my* first computer was an 8-bit Babbage difference engine. 'Course, I spent the extra money to get a steam powered one rather than the kind you had to hook a horse up to...
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