Who's the daddy?

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speling bee replied

9 June 2014, 15:08
Originally posted by zeitghost

That's an analog(ue) computer.

But a really really really fecking clever one.

Not just the design, but some serious precision engineering.
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MicrosoftBob replied

9 June 2014, 15:01
Surely it would be whoever invented the Abacus
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mudskipper replied

9 June 2014, 14:37
Originally posted by eek View Post

Neither Ada Lovelace would be a better bet.

Babbage never completed beyond a calculator...

Ada Lovelace is AndyW's mum shocker!
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speling bee replied

9 June 2014, 10:09
Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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EternalOptimist replied

9 June 2014, 09:44
Stig. it was non portable and ran on lith
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Doggy Styles replied

9 June 2014, 09:21
Originally posted by eek View Post

Neither Ada Lovelace would be a better bet.

Babbage never completed beyond a calculator...

Calculation is the essence of a computer.

Programming with loops and conditionals, storage etc are enhancements to that basic tenet.
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mudskipper replied

9 June 2014, 08:39
Originally posted by original PM View Post

As Turing was chemically castrated for being gay I imagine he was not the daddy......

Letters of Note: Yours in distress, Alan
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eek replied

9 June 2014, 08:35
Neither Ada Lovelace would be a better bet.

Babbage never completed beyond a calculator...
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OwlHoot replied

9 June 2014, 08:35
Maybe the real Daddy was Joseph Jacquard (1752–1834), who invented looms programmable by punched cards.

Mind you, that article says that in 1725 someone called Basile Bouchon introduced the principle of using a perforated band of paper in a loom. So perhaps Bouchon is the grand daddy.
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original PM replied

9 June 2014, 08:28
As Turing was chemically castrated for being gay I imagine he was not the daddy......
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