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Programmer Buys Original Ada Lovelace Painting On eBay

Posted by kdawson on from the mother-of-us-all dept.

An anonymous reader sends the story of the rediscovery of an original painting of Ada Byron at about age 4, the girl who was to become Countess Lovelace and the world's first computer programmer. A US Army sergeant in Tajikistan caught wind of an eBay auction of a 180-year-old painting of Ada Byron, with provenance; he notified a programmer buddy in Texas, who won the auction.

2 of 86 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I have an idea by edwardpickman · · Score: 0, Troll
    I have a piece of the first code ever written

    Yeah but when you install Vista Service Pack One it overwrites that code.

  2. Re:I have an idea by VGPowerlord · · Score: 0, Troll

    Vista can overwrite DNA? Whoa, it's more scary than I thought.

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