Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automaton Built 240 Years Ago

Re:Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automaton Built 240 Y... by ledge on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @11:33PM (#6680700)

I disagree with the "electronic" part. That disqualifies Charles Babbage's early mechanical computers, not to mention all of biological/chemical computing.

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Re:Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automaton Built 240 Y... by eru on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @03:23AM (#6681564)

And the electro-mechanical computers of the 40s and 50s.

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