At 08:42 -0500 2009/03/01, John Randall wrote:
>The scope was a little more general. You may want to look at
>
>http://digital.library.cornell.edu/k/kmoddl/pdf/001_001.pdf
>
>where Babbage gives the notation for an 8-day clock. His main application
>was, of course, Difference Engine No. 2 and the Analytical Engine, neither
>of which are straight adding machines.
As a pitch for the Computer History Museum (where I spent a wonderful
3 hours just this morning (Sunday at a 9:00 AM presentation,
listening to a great panel discussion on the collision of printed
word and the internet) if anyone reading this forum is near San
Francisco between now and May and haven't already seen it -- you
should make it a priority to see Difference Engine No. 2 in its full
glory. It is truly an amazing piece of machinery. The video about it
is informative, but like standing in front of a redwood tree, or on
the rim of the grand canyon, the real experience is somthing that you
can't get from words and pictures... Even so, the video is worth
watching -
http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/
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