Doron Swade

British historian of computing and former Senior Curator of Computing and Information Technology at the Science Museum, London — also known for leading the museum's reconstruction of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2. In this vault, his 1995 Resurrection (Computer Conservation Society bulletin) account of the MONIAC is an independent, artifact-level corroboration of the machine's accuracy: describing a surviving machine's own calibrated scales rather than repeating a secondary figure, he confirms Phillips's own ±4% claim against the ~2% figure that had circulated uncontested.

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