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From: Chris Brand <cbrand@ccgate.hac.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Lovelace
Date: 1996/10/29
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Bob Mathis wrote:
> [cut]
> 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.