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Date: 12 Apr 2025 02:54:22 GMT
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:00:05 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    Jacquard inspired BABBAGE ... who designed the first real computers -
>    albeit in brass gears. Poor bastard HAD IT RIGHT - but didn't live
>    quite long enough to see electric/electronic solutions.

https://www.hpmuseum.org/srw.htm

It had an electric motor so you didn't have to crank it but it was all 
gears, cams, levers, and springs. The NYS Dept. of Education was still 
using them when I worked there summers in the mid-60s.