Poe and Babbage

*So, if you've got an unbuilt vaporware computer that's not really a real computer yet, you've got to have some science fiction writer horn in — a pop-science guy who's not really a real science fiction writer yet.

http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2009/11/a-note-on-poe-babbage-and-thinking-machines-1836.html

"But before he deals with the innards of the automaton, Poe writes on its history, and touches on some very deep understanding of the Babbage Difference Engine...