Christie's auction and other computer history events

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Thu Feb 17 15:30:37 2005

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Eric Smith wrote:
>
>> Several of the developers of early computers said in interviews in the
>> 1970s and later that they had been unaware of Babbage's work.

It's clear to me that many of them would have a stake in 'no prior
art' or a defensible 'no knowldge of prior art'...
Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 15:30:37 GMT