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The greatest (math) machine that never was

By Murray Bourne, 27 Jul 2012

Programmer John Graham-Cumming gives us a brief history of what was arguably the very first computer, designed by Charles Babbage in the 1830s. He never built it and nobody has since.

It was a computer (not just a mechanical calculator) because it was programmable.

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