Comments:

• This document focuses on the activities of only 5 people who were preparing the Babbage machine for demo at CHM. Many other people planned and did a) the move, b) constructing the environment of two walls and a Victorian Setting, c) electrical and mechanical work, d) and the usual hidden things needed for smooth operations.
• The machine arrived rusty. The engineers were horrified that the steel looked similar to the bronze.
  There was a continuing priority struggle for 2 weeks, polish or improve function.

  The machine arrived with many screws and taper pins loose - and the machine had evidently been dropped or thumped - witness broken counter weight cables, "settled" stereotyping mechanism and column height problems.

  This document is not intended to be comprehensive, just some uncommon views of machinery and people -

  We made liberal use of private 1401 Restoration tools, and CHM tools and facilities to handle the unexpected Babbage machine problems.

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