
Episode 101: Year 2000 Problem
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The History of the Turing Complete Machine
Babbage built a tiny model of the machine to demonstrate it to the British government. He also inadvertently invented the first computer programmer, his friend Ada Lovelace. The main issue with the machine though is Babbage didn't actually build it. It would be what we'd call Turing complete and could calculate almost any arbitrary set of instructions.
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