Talk:Analytical engine

The history of computers page says that the analytical engine was never built, this page at least implies that it was. Which is correct?

It was never built. His son built a part of it (arithmetical unit and printer) which excluded the most important control unit which would make it programmable. I'll clarify that. --AxelBoldt

This page states that the analytical engine was a hundred years ahead of comperable...computers. Were there other computer at the time of the analytical engine? Or was it the technological equivalent of computers that would be built a century later? --rmhermen

There were no other computers at the time. The first comparable ones appeared 100 years later. --AxelBoldt

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100 years after 1837 (first description) or 1871 (death)? Are you referring to Zuse? --Yooden