April 18, 2000
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I had no idea that Charles Babbage designed a computer printer to work alongside his Difference Engine. Pushing my astonishment aside for one moment, apparently he did design one, and a bunch of historical tech wonks at the Science Museum in London built it from the original blue prints over a period of nine years. Incredible. But wait there’s more. The same team previously built a fully working version of the Difference Engine. As with all old technology, I guess the system works better if the peripherals match the CPU.
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