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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This is starting to get ridiculous. Next someone will claim that he worked on an original Babbage Difference Engine.


30 posted on 01/13/2012 12:23:14 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (May Mitt Romney be the Mo Udall of 2012.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
This is starting to get ridiculous. Next someone will claim that he worked on an original Babbage Difference Engine.

It shows the huge changes over the decades. That 7 1/2 MB 2311 drive that I talked about was still in use in the mid 1970's, not long ago in human years, but eons ago in terms of computer generations.

32 posted on 01/13/2012 12:30:30 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“This is starting to get ridiculous. Next someone will claim that he worked on an original Babbage Difference Engine.”

For this to work you have to read it in an “old geezer telling his grandson about when he was a kid” voice .....

“Babbage difference engine you say? Why in MY day we didn’t have those fancy wind up computers. We used the CABBAGE Difference Engine. If you wanted to know the difference between 10 and 7, you put 10 cabbages on the desk, and then you took 7 of them off the desk. What was left was the difference. And we liked it!”


44 posted on 01/13/2012 9:27:08 PM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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