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Show your non-Apple rigs! (Anti-Mac Thread)
94Luke:
Hedge:
--- Quote from: vRSy on May 02, 2010, 10:15:14 pm ---wander how many transistors are in that contraption Hedge. was that the god father god all computers lol
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That my dear Sy is Babbages Difference Engine (well replica methinks) and yes the Great Grandaddy doesn't quite cover it. :wink:
cmdrfire:
This hasn't exactly gone the way I planned it would go :laugh:
--- Quote from: Hedge on May 02, 2010, 10:22:56 pm ---
That my dear Sy is Babbages Difference Engine (well replica methinks) and yes the Great Grandaddy doesn't quite cover it. :wink:
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It is indeed a replica of the Difference Engine No 2. Babbage never finished his first Engine and was working on the second Engine before abandoning that. Before he died he was working on an even further improved device, the Analytical Engine which was never built.
Now all we need is someone to post an image of a Turing machine...
Thor:
--- Quote from: Hedge on May 02, 2010, 10:04:39 pm ---
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Nice post Ian, iirc Babbage worked alot with IK Brunnel to prove that broad gauge railways were smoother and faster than narrow (standard gauge)
What a piece of clockwork engineering :notworthy: :notworthy:
VC:
--- Quote from: cmdrfire on May 02, 2010, 10:54:45 pm ---This hasn't exactly gone the way I planned it would go :laugh:
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...in this forum? this surprises you? :grin:
were only a couple of posts away from randomness or images of women :grin:
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