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Building a computer from way, way back

[quote]Researchers in Britain are about to embark on a 10-year, multimillion-dollar project to build a computer

I wonder if it will play Pong.

Yes, but only drawing it on a parchment using a quill and inkwell set (to have a mental image, look at Hex in the Discworld TV adaptation), might be a little slow, though...

Babbage is new to me, so I Googled, really cool stuff on him at Wikipedia, worth reading.