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IBM SPEAKERS BUREAU SLIDE SHOW
Slide 115 Modern Computer
Building on all that had gone before, this fundamental concept led to today's
electronic, stored program digital computer.
To wind up, I would like to return to the words of Charles Babbage.
He said, "One half century may probably elapse before anyone without
those aids which I leave behind me will attempt so unpromising a task. If,
unwarned by my example, any man shall undertake and shall succeed in really
constructing an engine embodying in itself the whole of the executive
department of mathematical analysis upon different principles, or by simpler
mathematical means, I have no fear of leaving my reputation in his charge,
for he alone will be fully able to appreciate the nature of my efforts and
the value of their results."
It took more than half a century, but today there is a new industry that pays
homage to Charles Babbage.
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