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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Babbage Sues Computer Industry!!
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Date: 21 Dec 89 17:39:27 GMT
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> After hearing preliminary arguments, the judge threw the case out, claiming
> that Babbage's analog computer did not directly prefigure current digital
> practice.
> 
> Babbage counters by suing manufacturers of various analog computers, such as
> naval gun directors and some analog flight simulators.
> 
> In a related move, Babbage himself is being taken to court by Blaise Pascal,
> inventor of an early census-tabulating computer.


I hear the weather in silicon valley is so cold that the lawyers have
their hands in their own pockets.