[AT] tractor hauling pickup

[James Peck]

Rivian of the announced electric pickup fame occupies a building north of the old Burroughs computer building. How do you get from an mechanical calculator to an electric pickup.


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[link] Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated a mechanical calculator that could determine a square root in 1694, and in 1821, Charles Babbage began designing the difference engine, which was essentially a modern computer that was to of been built using gears and levers for its internal mechanism. Babbage's efforts were abandoned, after a great deal of money had been spent, in part because of the difficulty of doing computing using mechanical technology. It wasn't until 1893 that William Burroughs produced the first successful mechanical desktop calculator.

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