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Difference Engine

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[personal profile] gfish
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 10:08 pm
I finally did a write about visiting the Difference Engine a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
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[identity profile] bigbumble.livejournal.com
Thursday, November 4th, 2010 10:32 am (UTC)
That is one glorious machine! I makes me think back to the summer of 1972 when the HP-35 scientific pocket calculator came out. After that the printed math tables in various scientific reference books began to shrink rapidly because the modern electronic calculator was physically smaller than the math tables.

[identity profile] gfish.livejournal.com
Monday, November 29th, 2010 06:04 am (UTC)
We were still being taught how to use tables in the early 90s, but in a very perfunctory way. I assume that's completely gone now.
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