In 1837, Charles Babbage conceptualized the Analytical Engine, a mechanical, gear-driven computer designed to feature a processing unit (the “mill”) and memory storage (the “store”). It was the world’s first blueprint for a fully programmable, general-purpose computer using conditional logic and loops.
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