Earlier Computing

Recently I've been looking at various scientists and their history and I always knew about Charles Babbage & his "Difference Engine" which was more or less a computer, albeit a very early one and probably not the most powerful :p So I was thinking, if he had a bit more luck or something and had completed would effects would occur? Would the success of his Difference Engine lead to more, better designs? What kind of impact would it be? Thanks in advance
 
I remember reading about a Polynesian digital computing machine that had AND, OR, and NOT gates operated by pulleys. Don't ask me where to find the article, cause that was ten years ago.
 

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Recently I've been looking at various scientists and their history and I always knew about Charles Babbage & his "Difference Engine" which was more or less a computer, albeit a very early one and probably not the most powerful :p So I was thinking, if he had a bit more luck or something and had completed would effects would occur? Would the success of his Difference Engine lead to more, better designs? What kind of impact would it be? Thanks in advance
it's a Programmable, Turing complete, Digital computer about 1/30th as powerful as the last generation of Electro-Mechanical Computers. It'd Be Insanely Useful for Engineers because of it's nature and speed.
 
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