(((Aw man, kudos to Gadget Lab. That video is just the k-rad l33t awesomest.)))

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Exclusive Video: Babbage’s Mechanical Calculator Comes to Life By Dylan Tweney May 01, 2008 | 11:01:27 PM Categories: Other, Retro (((WAY “other” and WAY “retro”))) “Charles Babbage completed plans for an elaborate, all-mechanical calculator in 1849. His Difference Engine #2 was so complicated, with more than 8,000 separate parts, that it was never built during his lifetime. But now, thanks to the efforts of dedicated, historically-minded engineers at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, plus a generous donation of cash from Microsoft gazillionaire genius Nathan Myhrvold, Babbage’s Difference Engine is on display in Silicon Valley.”

(((That multi-ton gizmo has even got the built-in printer. It sounds like Myrhvold intends to print a book with it.)))