Archive for April 20th, 2008



Building a 5-ton mechanical calculator… from 19th-century plans

Starting in May, many will have the opportunity to see for themselves how they did computing the old-fashioned way: with lots of gears, a big crank and some muscle.
The Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, Calif., will unveil a new construction, the first in the United States, of the 19th century British […]