200 years is stecthing the 1830's a little... And there was a working study made that Babage demonstated at his many soirees.
Wonder if his manufactuere are anything like Joseph Clement... ;) ---- NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> wrote: > > Antique engines inspire nano chip. > > The blueprint for a tiny, ultra-robust mechanical computer has been > outlined by US researchers. The energy-efficient nano computer is > inspired by ideas about computing first put forward nearly 200 years ago. > > Writing in the New Journal of Physics, the scientists say the machine > would be built from nanometre-sized components, just billionths of a > metre across. > > Chips based on the design could be used in places, such as car engines, > where silicon can be too delicate, they said. > > "What we are proposing is a new type of computing architecture that is > only based on nano-mechanical elements," said Professor Robert Blick of > the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the authors of the > journal paper. > > more... > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6912023.stm > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
