From: Chris Brand <cbrand@ccgate.hac.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Lovelace
Date: 1996/10/29
Date: 1996-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32765564.2DD6@ccgate.hac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 961024102255_73313.2671_FHM45-8@CompuServe.COM
Bob Mathis wrote:
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> There was even a science fiction story (I think entitled the Difference Engine,
> published around 1990) based on the presumption that Babbage's computer had
> worked and that the computer age had arrived a century earlier. (Powered by
> steam instead of electricity.)
> [cut]
Written by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (sp?), if I remember correctly.
And a very good book it is too.
--
Chris
Stating my own opinions, not those of my company.
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1996-10-24 0:00 Ada Lovelace Bob Mathis
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1996-10-21 0:00 "Zarathustra Group"
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