<![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> @Death_Worm: @FotoVerite:
You guys read my mind... why no one remembers Lady Ada Augusta Lovelace?
I made a skin for my laptop, with her portrait.

Erzengel

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> Oh ew.

Why did they take out his brain? What the hell.

Aethyr

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> Anyone else get a flashback to shopping at Babbage's?

OtakuboyT

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> @Death_Worm:

Agreed Ada Byron was instrumental in the creation of the Difference engine and the mathematics that drive it. At least there's a outdated language dedicated to her.

Guess everyone missed that movie with Tilda Swinton

FotoVerite

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> Hooray for the Babbage's video game store reference. I liked that place, though never had money to buy anything.

rdldr1

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> Will it play doom?

(Sorry, had to be done)

s017jrs

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> These things weren't complete, immediate dead ends - I have a couple of '50s Monroe-Matic mechanical calculators down in the basement. I remember the wonderful whirring-ticking sound they made from when my I was a kid. They also generated a surprising amount of heat.

-Kle.

Klebert L. Hall

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> Can you imagine the size of the graphics card for that thing?

Lazarus

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> What? No mention of "The Difference Engine" by Gibson and Sterling?

that machine is a work of beauty.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> No love for Lady Lovelace? :(

Death_Worm

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> Nice to hear about Babage. He is a humorous person, see this letter he sent to Tennsyson :

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Sujith John Abraham

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> i suggest anyone interested in Babbage to go get some Robert rankin books, he deals with an alternate victorian history where (spoilers!!!)

Charles babbage and nikolai telsa work together to bring the great victorian british superpower, with wireless transmission of electricity powering their flying battleships, it's completely bonkers yet utterly charming and funny, i realy reccomend it

Stueymon

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> Anyone know how much influence Babbage had on Turing?

Slothrop

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> Actually it is already here (see Wired report). And on the subject of triviagasm, one of the staff at the Computer History Museum is Chris Garcia, a well-known Bay Area fan who happens to be up for a couple of Hugos this year.

cherylmorgan

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> 2 steampunkish posts in 30 minutes!
I wuv my io9.


Grey_Area

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> If...if...if...

If we lived in a Steampunk world, Babbage would be our Edison.

Or is it the other way around?

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It]]> Gorgeous!
-Kle.


Klebert L. Hall

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