Friday, 25 January 2008

Asterix-Punk Computing

Retro-Futurists take note:Neatorama has a great post up on the history of computing. Examples go from flint-napping-punk, stone age calculating devices inscribed on baboon fibula, to transistor-punk, Eniac, the first room-filling digital computer.Of course my favorites are somewhere in between technologically, if not chronologically.Witness the beauty that is Blaise Pascal's Pascaline:The second

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