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Old 10-15-2010, 05:01 PM   #38
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Babbage never finished his machine. Curiously, it was duplicated maybe less than 10 years ago. They discovered many his is prints were backwards - maybe intentionally so that others could not steal his design. Interesting is that his mechanical computer did work - had he finished it.

Which says nothing about quantum physics place in mankind's future.
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