Shadow ministers, meanwhile, had worked hard at finding out about the machine.
But most of the Mac fans crowding around the MacBook Air on display at the trade show didn't seem to worry about the machine's sturdiness, any more than any other notebook.
They dropped again in the evening as Prof Randell had arranged for one of Colossus's creators, Allen "Doc" Coombs, to attend and answer questions about the machine and what it did.
We asked Kaplan how the company plans to do that--and for some details about the new machine.
Industry analyst Paul Nieuwenhuis said that while many customers bought luxury cars "by the meter" -- that is to say they care more about the image than the machine -- modern Rolls-Royce cars were exceptional vehicles.
On the other hand, if you cannot actually use the 4G connectivity in Europe as yet how excited will Europeans be about buying the new machine?
He is particularly optimistic about the potential for machine-to-machine communication over mobile networks.
Greg talked about the lovely, reassuring hum of the machine when it was powered up and positively glowed at the sharp report of a key striking the paper.
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The average washing machine contains about 40kg of steel and when a machine is scrapped, a proportion of the steel is lost to landfill.
Mr Dibnah, the Bolton steeplejack who shot to fame in a television documentary about his life, restored the machine over a 25-year period.
Cornell's Creative Machines Lab posted a video this week of a computer's inner monologue, and it's making the rounds on the Internet not because the machine is having profound thoughts about world domination or the future of technology -- but because the discussion it has with itself is totally ridiculous.
And the ice machine was exciting -- and the vending machine, I was really excited about that.
But there is also a more subtle story about the creation of a political machine.
The two Grail probes, called Ebb and Flow, were each about the size of a washing machine.
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"I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I saw a way to increase output of the machine by about 50%, " he says.
There was no significant relearning about layout or use of the machine.
Adrian Lund, research director for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, cautions that even the most well-intentioned new technology could backfire if designers do not think carefully about the interface between man and machine.
Then, in 1975, a change of government brought a change in policy and Prof Randell was invited to the Cabinet Office to discuss the first official release of information about the Allies' main codebreaking machine.
I'm not sure what the neuro part of the neuro-fuzzy means, but I think it means that the more you use this machine, the more it thinks about you.
The headlines provide a steady diet of both systemic concerns and short-term hiccups, all of which the GDP machine could seem to care less about, chugging along to the envy of the world.
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The result was a machine that fills 16 ounces in about five seconds if the water is at room temperature, or about seven seconds if it has to meander through refrigeration pipes on the way out.
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The discovery eventually came about using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a machine at CERN that sends bunches of protons round a ring 27km in circumference, in opposite directions, at close to the speed of light, so that they collide head on.
When I asked the clerk about why their was a camera overhead, directly looking at the machine, she informed me it was for the protection of the store and customers.
There is a lot more I will write in future blogs about the details of what we have planned in the Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine (M2M).
It's never happened before that we've fired a very large bullet that's made largely of copper and aluminum, the size of a washing machine, at a comet that's about--the comet's nucleus is about four or five miles across--to make a big crater.
Which reminds me of a story Oscar de la Renta once told me about Daisy Fellowes, the stylish Singer sewing machine heiress.
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It seems a debate has been sparked about whether, in this case, the machine is broken, and how it can be fixed.
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Their rival, Nintendo, will provide more detail about the release of its Wii U games machine at a New York event on Thursday.
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