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Offline Clive

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Plan to build 'steam-powered PC'
« on: October 14, 2010, 15:44 »
A campaign to build a truck-sized, prototype computer first envisaged in 1837 by mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage is gathering steam.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11530905
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Re: Plan to build 'steam-powered PC'
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2010, 15:53 »
All that lovely brass. :)
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Re: Plan to build 'steam-powered PC'
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2010, 17:12 »
Funny, I thought computer parts were all getting smaller.  :)
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Re: Plan to build 'steam-powered PC'
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2010, 17:13 »
Unless they belong to Clive.  :o:
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Re: Plan to build 'steam-powered PC'
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2010, 17:18 »
 :laugh:
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Re: Plan to build 'steam-powered PC'
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2010, 19:01 »
Boys will be boys  ::) .
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Re: Plan to build 'steam-powered PC'
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2010, 22:05 »
Boys and their toys.   ;D
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