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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Taro who wrote (314876)12/10/2006 9:09:09 AM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1586653
 
"I made a distinction because my point was the difference between making a real invention and some dream invention for the future."

You mean Hollerith's machines didn't work? Or his tabulating machines were blue sky, without any commercial potential? Have you told IBM? Since they are under the impression that they were building business machines well before 1949.

Babbage's machines were never fully functional in his lifetime. Although many of his other inventions were wildly successful. Hand cut gears just wasn't up to snuff. However, his designs were very good, Vannever Bush based his machine on Babbage's difference engine and a copy of Babbage's machine was even built buy the Brits based on his plans. Which worked as designed with the exception of a few minor errors.
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