Reading Response: Babbage's Analytical Engine

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Babbage's Analytical Engine is the interesting piece of history I picked up in this reading. This engine is the first computer invented by Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century. Since the mid-1830s, Babbage started designing a truly programmable computer that could execute complex calculation sequences that exceeded the capabilities of any contemporary machines (Pg. 159). He designed the analytical engine to be a general-purpose programmable computing machine that could perform any calculation set before it. Babbage's design also anticipated all the major components of a modern computer. Its four main components included the store, the mill, the printer, and the reader, which are essential components of the modern computer (Pg. 160). The mill was the calculating unit, equiva...