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04-06-2013, 12:18 AM

Clarke Clarke is offline

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Join Date: Jul 2011

Location: Scotland, 140 years too early

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan

There was an exhibit on Alan Turing, a rather clever bloke who had something to do with the invention of modern computing.

IIRC, they also have (which I really wanted to see

) the original Difference Engine, which is a really cool-looking machine even if you have no idea what it actually does.

(Babbage never built one in the 19th century - as such, the one built in the 1990s to his design is the original.

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