Strange request for help w / my programming class

[Steven Tindall]

Hi all.

My request is can somebody please provide me with the name of the guy that was tricked by the midget chessmaster and ended up building a very basic computer as a result.

I remember reading something like this in a thread about 100 desicions that would have spawned an alternate history and now I can't find the thread.

I'm takeing basic programming logic and design this term and we have to do a report and slideshow presentation on famous computer scientists so I would like to do mine on this guy but can't remember his name or find the thread.

Thanks in advance.

[Paul Watson]

Steven Tindall wrote:

Hi all.

My request is can somebody please provide me with the name of the guy that was tricked by the midget chessmaster and ended up building a very basic computer as a result.

I remember reading something like this in a thread about 100 desicions that would have spawned an alternate history and now I can't find the thread.

I'm takeing basic programming logic and design this term and we have to do a report and slideshow presentation on famous computer scientists so I would like to do mine on this guy but can't remember his name or find the thread.

Thanks in advance.

I believe it was Charles Babbage. His Difference Engine is often regarded as the first proper computer.

[Steven Tindall]

Paul Watson wrote:

Steven Tindall wrote:

Hi all.

My request is can somebody please provide me with the name of the guy that was tricked by the midget chessmaster and ended up building a very basic computer as a result.

I remember reading something like this in a thread about 100 desicions that would have spawned an alternate history and now I can't find the thread.

I'm takeing basic programming logic and design this term and we have to do a report and slideshow presentation on famous computer scientists so I would like to do mine on this guy but can't remember his name or find the thread.

Thanks in advance.

I believe it was Charles Babbage. His Difference Engine is often regarded as the first proper computer.

Thanks. I knew somebody would have a better memory than mine.