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Babbage Difference Engine No.2

Charles Babbage was not able to raised the funds to build a complete Difference Engine. 153 years after he died the first working engine was completed at the Science Museum in London. There is now a second in Mountain View, California.

 

It had many of the attributes of a modern computer - separate CPU, memory and I/O devices, stored programs and easily reprogrammable with punched cards.

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Uploaded on May 29, 2011
Taken on May 29, 2011