1 BACKGROUND
On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage (‘the Father of Computing’) in Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, 1864
It is interesting to see how far we have come in such a short time. Before we discuss where we are now, it can be instructive to see the weird but wonderful path that has been taken to get us to our current position. The history of electronic computing is not that long: indeed, much of it has occurred over just ...
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