On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Tom Jennings wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Eric Smith wrote: > >> Several of the developers of early computers said in interviews in the >> 1970s and later that they had been unaware of Babbage's work. It's clear to me that many of them would have a stake in 'no prior art' or a defensible 'no knowldge of prior art'...