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4h 42min, jan 31, 1836 y - 1.The Designs of Charles Babbage

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In the mid 1800's Charles Babbage designed his first computers. These were: Engine No. 1, Difference Engine No. 2, and the Analytical Engine. However, Babagge never produced his designs.
Although Charles Babbage’s computers offer almost no resemblance to the modern computers that we use today many of Babbage’s ideas were instrumental in the development of the modern computer. Some of these ideas include: the separation of processing and storage units, how a computer is assembled, and the coding used to program data / information into and out of a computer.

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4h 42min, jan 31, 1836 y
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~ 190 years ago