Carl Lowenstein wrote: .. > > Having just come back from a visit to the Computer History Museum in > Mountain View CA, I notice one thing conspicuously absent from this > presentation. Namely the work of Charles Babbage on mechanical > digital calculation for several decades starting in the 1820's. But > perhaps his efforts were not well known a hundred years later, despite > some fairly clear publications by Ada Augusta Byron Lovelace. > > At the Computer History Museum there is a working hand-cranked Babbage > Difference Engine, constructed in the past few years from the > surviving original drawings. It's a beautiful thing to watch, with > all the gears and levers and such. Especially the pipelined > look-ahead carry mechanism. About 7 ft high by 15 ft long. > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage
Seems like an appropriate remark. I wonder how you might get this same comment passed on to Dyson, without knowing his address? I guess this is not a new problem, since in the past one would simply address snail mail care/of the target's institution or some other known affiliation (eg, publisher). Possibilities: - U. of Washington -- faculty/staff search fails (maybe left/retired?) - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- this may be a good possibility to send a c/o - FlickrMail -- maybe, but seems a roundabout path - http://en.oreilly.com/et2009/public/content/contact -- guess 1 (GD did presentation at O'R Emerging Technology Conference 2005) Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
