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To: combjelly who wrote (314881)	12/10/2006 9:20:53 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586650

Didn't mention any Hollerith because I don't even know who he is, you brought him in. Could look it up but right now that's irrelevant. Babbage's machines never worked because they required not yet invented technology like precision milling machines. The late 40s tube based machines worked because they relied on contemporary technology. And those great Swedes (Bertil Bolin and others) already had the weather simulation model equations ready waiting for the machine to be built to crunch the numbers within hours rather than within centuries. That was the beginning of a very special and still on going cooperation between Swedish and US scientists in the area of weather simulation and prediction. And sure enough, no doubt a helicopter built according to Da Vinci's sketches powered by a machine invented a few centuries later would no doubt get off the ground if not much more than that though. Taro