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- From: tommy.usher@the-matrix.com (Tommy Usher)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: The Difference Engine
- Message-ID: <5041.403.uupcb@the-matrix.com>
- Date: 20 Jan 93 17:40:00 GMT
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- Organization: The MATRIX BBS - Birmingham, AL - 205-323-2016
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- If you enjoyed Gibson and Sterling's "The Difference Engine" then you should
- check out the current Scientific American. They have finally built Babbage's
- machine...and it works! A museum in England decided follow the blueprints of
- the Difference Engine and see if it could have been built. Its huge, it
- weighs three tons, but it works and Babbage has been vindicated. What if
- it had been built back then? Makes you wonder... Nah, the only difference
- would probably be that we would all be using MS-DOS 55.0 and Windows 33.1.
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- . SLMR 2.1a . Become a programmer and never see the world!!
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