> > From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/04/16 Wed PM 07:28:05 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO - Who can identify this? > > > Partly right. It is, indeed, Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 > > The first working model (built from Babbage's original plans) > was created by a team at the Science Museum in London, and put > on display in 1991. That machine was originally lacking the > printer, but that was added in 2000. > > This is another machine, built by the same group in London. It > will be on display at the Computer History Museum for a while.
That's as close to mass production as makes no difference for these things. Sorry. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
