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Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn__ appear for more than a hundred years.
Steven Johnson Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn__ appear for more than a hundred years.
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

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