the difference engine

A video of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine in operation at the Computer History Museum.

A larger and higher quality version of the video is also available.

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3 Responses to the difference engine

  1. Rodney Dawes says:

    Too bad that guy wasn’t doing that during the UDS party there in 2008. I wonder if the Jaunty CD is still there…

  2. Joseph says:

    I like measuring my calculation capability in RPMs rather than MHz. :)

  3. davidz says:

    Definitely helps bring home the point that every time your program does needless computation, god sends a poor museum curator to turn handles of machines like this.

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