| Grandad's Sparkle MP3 File |
| Great Grand-dad's Sparkle | ||
| performed by "Ralph" |
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The earliest multi-purpose pro- grammable computing device was pro- ably Babbage's 'Difference Engine', though a more ambitious machine was the 'Analytical Engine' because the technology of the day, they say, was not up to the task he was asking. And though he nearly had it beat, he never saw a machine complete, but the techniques Babbage recognised put a twinkle in my great grand-dad's eyes, he worked out conditional branches, iterative loops iterative loops, iterative loops, iterative loops and index variables...... But it was not up to the task he was asking. |
| Generation GapMP3 File | ||
| Genearation Gap | ||
| performed by "Ralph" |
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The evolution of digital computing is often divided into generations. |