29th May 2003, 12:17 PM
Pretty sad that they couldn't last long enough to give this new leaf they turned a try, but I must agree, they dug their own grave.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)