[plug] What was your first computer?

[Michael Hunt]

> All the slide rules I've seen had a log scale - thats *how* they
> did multiplication/division, without a log scale you can only
> do addition/subtraction and I've never seem one like that ever,
>
> Well - other then an abacus,
>
> rgds
>
> Mike

Okay history question here. Does anyone know what Charles Babage's
Analytical Engine was designed to do ??? (i.e. What project did Chuck have
in mind for it ???)

Michael Hunt