Comment by Stratoscope

4 years ago

I know Enterprise customers require extreme backward compatibility, but it must be a fairly small number who are still running legacy code written in 1771.

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Stratoscope

aasasd 4 years ago

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/jacquard-loom-simulator/

https://github.com/jfinkels/analyticalengine

https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/emulator.html

Stratoscope 4 years ago

I stand corrected, and awed. Thank you!
I had the good fortune to see the Babbage Engine in action when it was at the Computer History Museum. Only got a few photos, but here they are (plus an unrelated photo of a core memory plane):
https://geary.smugmug.com/Computers/History/
https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/