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James Essinger

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in Leicester, The United Kingdom

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Hi! My name is James Essinger and I'm a writer of fiction and non-fiction.

In my fiction I have a particular interest in personal relationships, travel, history, information technology and chess.

In my non-fiction I have a particular interest in the history of computing, and in language.

I was born in Leicester in the English Midlands in 1957 and I attended Overdale Junior School in Leicester and also Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys. After a year between school and university, I studied English Language and Literature at Lincoln College, which is part of the University of Oxford.

After leaving university I taught English in Finland for three nine-month sessions. I learnt Finnish, and I still speak Finnish fairly fluently. I also speak German ...more

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	Charles & Ada: The Computer's Most Passionate Partnership by James Essinger (欧宝娱乐 Author), Lisa Noel Babbage (Foreword) 3.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A poem I wrote

The German Sailor

Outside, beyond the double glazing
Of this house on Romney Marsh -
This comfy, wealthy home with
Warm rooms, settees and armchairs
And a larder full of food - tonight,
Past midnight, I sit here alone and hear
The rain and wind screech all around me,
Blowing endlessly out to sea
And marshwards, across the dykes
And jet-black fields of melancholy sheep.

And I remember, a year or so ago
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James Essinger answered Marg Corjay's question: In "Jacquard's Web" each chapter starts with the picture of a different punchcard. If these were set up on a loom, what pattern would they create? Thanks for your question Marg. In fact this was something done by the designer and I am sure was just done to make an interesting illustration and without any other purpose. In any event, I don't have a detailed technical knowledge of the actual conf See Full Answer
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James Essinger answered Marg Corjay's question:

In "Jacquard's Web" each chapter starts with the picture of a different punchcard. If these were set up on a loom, what pattern would they create?

Thanks for your question Marg. In fact this was something done by the designer and I am sure was just done to make an interesting illustration and without any other purpose. In any event, I don't have a detailed technical knowledge of the actual conf See Full Answer

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“Hollerith learned a lesson that all vendors of data processing devices and computers have learned at some point: that the biggest market for information processing systems is usually not the government sector, still less scientific or mathematical laboratories, but the offices of commercial organizations.”
― James Essinger, Jacquard's Web: How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age

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“Crucial decisions in business are taken as much for emotional reasons as for logical ones, perhaps even more so. The tabulators inspired a level of emotion in Flint and in other powerful American businessmen that did indeed make these people feel certain they were witnessing a momentous breakthrough in humankind鈥檚 mastery of information.”
― James Essinger, Jacquard's Web: How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age

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“The clash of Watson鈥檚 and Hollerith鈥檚 personalities was a classical example of a brash, energetic, visionary newcomer confronting a staid traditionalist.”
― James Essinger, Jacquard's Web: How a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age

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