4th March 2005, 6:51 PM
WEll actually I've used a few and ths sticks can often be sturdier honestly. IT's just the rest of the design...
"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)