15th February 2004, 11:31 PM
I do believe they did, as one of those interesting parts of that weird relationship of being both 2nd and 3rd party.
"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)