19th December 2006, 9:11 PM
Except me. It WAS something in a box! Of course that was the most detailed an educated guess could GET at the time, but there it was!
"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)