This is BrainLog, a blog by Dan Sanderson. Older entries, from October 1999 through September 2010, are preserved for posterity, but are no longer maintained. See the front page and newer entries.

April 11, 2008

Charles Babbage's masterpiece difference engine comes to Silicon Valley. A modern build of Babbage's mechanical difference engine will live at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View for 6 months starting in May.