Title :
Appreciating Charles Babbage: emails between Allan Bromley and Maurice Wilkes
Author_Institution :
George Washington Univ., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
The email correspondence which is presented is between Allan Bromley and Maurice Wilkes and began in 2000 with a greeting and a discussion of what Wilkes hoped to accomplish. Then the correspondence shifted the subject to the recently completed reproduction of Babbage´s second difference engine.
Keywords :
computers; history; Babbage second difference engine; analytical engines; history; primary memory;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2004.29
