27th January 2003, 12:21 AM
No, actually he got a better paying job at some other company. Now he fixes systems for all sorts of companies, from his home pretty often.
"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)