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Computing Before Electronics
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Computing devices predate electricity by thousands of years — people tallied on the abacus in antiquity, and mechanical engines automated calculation with gears in the 1800s.
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Babbage's Difference Engine ground out polynomial tables mechanically, built to prevent human arithmetic errors.
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The ideas came first; the electronics came later.