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Article #44315Re: Babbage Sues Computer Industry!!
From: gillies
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 17:39
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 17:39
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> After hearing preliminary arguments, the judge threw the case out, claiming > that Babbage's analog computer did not directly prefigure current digital > practice. > > Babbage counters by suing manufacturers of various analog computers, such as > naval gun directors and some analog flight simulators. > > In a related move, Babbage himself is being taken to court by Blaise Pascal, > inventor of an early census-tabulating computer. I hear the weather in silicon valley is so cold that the lawyers have their hands in their own pockets.
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