Web Semantics: Babbagespeak

http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/glossary.html

"In these pages, I've used Babbage's own terminology for components and operations in the Analytical Engine. The following table gives the equivalents in contemporary computer terminology."

Babbage's Analytical Engine

Contemporary Computer

Accidental sign

Sign bit

Analyst

Programmer

Attendant

Operator

Axis

Buffer register

Barrel

Microcode

Card

Instruction

(…)

Curve Drawing Apparatus

Plotter

Column (of Rack)

Memory (RAM) cell

Cycle

Loop

Mill
Arithmetic and...