A4 - Friday, April 13, 1984 - North Shore News Babbage our new heritage F ASKED WHEN the first computer was built, you’d probably guess that it) was sometime in the 1940s and its name was something awful like ENIAC or BINAC. or UNIVAC I. In fact 1 pass this alony engine was built by an because until recently at was news tO me—the first com- puter was built more than a century earhber and it) was delightfully named a “‘dit- ference engine "’ Come on now, as we slide deeper into the Computer Age, these sorts of historical bits become our new heritage Pay attention Someday your kids might ask you. Or, more likely, your parents will want to know The ptoneer difference RCMP moves pickets FROM PAGE A3 said one worker who retused Ta be idenufied Another worker stated “We were torced into applying tor umion certification "" The Pacific Coast Con tainer branch of C AIMAW (Canadian Association ot Industrial and Allied Workers) was certified on Apnl 4, but company of ficials did not receive their official notice of the cer tification until Tuesday. the day after banruptcy was declared An official at C AIMAW headquarters said the union did not receive its otficial notice until April 11 Company) president Bill Coward said Thursday that he views the picketing as i legal since the company declared bankruptuy Mon day and otficial union notice was not Tuesday received until After complaints trom the company that the picketers were illegally blocking the ext route of trucks from the ROMP and officals at COM pany site District bylaw tended othe conmipbharit tae found the unsonists Co be oun A sepal porsttrarny cout srede COMPAS head yuartcrs Another issue attsinp fescue. the dispute 1s threat thee ho aoton members fear they wall lyeot receive th estimated PPO WOO owed ther th wipe: abe CHOP atteh SENET ar OG peay Ccrwatl sand that arti ha assct, were taken overt bey tee ree inet foedhorttec oe vind Sets Usscrctates the toad aver storad orbit rte Peatih wortebh brerrscer adh pray trecquie- rssuread fry tbe cormpratiy CT dae Hortveds trad pee sterae by beecns Trosseus ty hia Pratik oo Pde sede db tee road fossryead * trig ois oe ‘ an a “1 hoa ‘ od ' Maavek [hye ‘ t at ! so tos ‘ a wh hipeds oa vs \ vid beaten \ ‘| ACY je Yaa vould on yea oa t ! ‘ } + Aad + i stay at 1 . 1 Vac 1 bade wdcbect re) we ‘ , ‘ ‘ a ' at ‘ ' Enghshman, Charles Bab- bage, a moody genius who was in the unusual position of trying to build a machine in the midst of the Industrial Revolution which would eventually trigger the Second Industrial Revolution Had he succeeded, the world would be quite dit terent The first men on the moon, for isntance, would probably have been British { love irony Babbage’s story is full of it) He was the onty man of his age capable of working out the mathematics necessary to design a digital computer. And of course he was treated for the most part hke a weirdo mechanical booms in a tutile bid to preserve their age-old cottage lifestyle. One of the tew people who understood what Babbage was up to was a brillant woman named tLady Lovelace, daughter of the great romantic poet, Lord ‘“*He was treated like a weirdo’’ Keep in mind that when he submitted his patent in 1822, the dust had barely settled in the conflict between the owners of England's brand- Byron. Lady Lovelace actual- ly designed a program that would have worked if Bab- bage's machine had uluumate- ly worked dites tactounes and the L.ud- who smashed But both of them were too tar ahead of their ume. The parts Babbage needed had not yet been invented. He did manage, against all odds, to build a working model that involved a pair of cast-iron counting drums re- quiring 60 horsepower trom a large steam engine to. per- form even a simple decade calculation Looking around at kids playing with the latest pocket calculator, | admit to feelings of awe. If this is how much things have changed In a cen- tury and a half, what's the world going to be hke a week from now? Predict the future? 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