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From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Fri May 25 07:52:42 2001

jkunz skrev:

>On 24 May, Iggy Drougge wrote:

>> I agree, but what about the Baby machine at Manhcester?
>Baby machine? Do you mean the machines of Charles Babbage? As I know
>these machines were not programmable.

No, it was a very small (compared to its contemporaries) machine, built at (I
think) the university of Manchester in the forties or early fifties. ISTR that
it used mercury memory.

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