Jules Richardson wrote:
 woodelf wrote:
  Why not just buy some Mechanno and join the rest
of the crowd.
 (Sorry no link) 
 :-)
 I don't have a reference to the Meccano one, but the Lego flavour's here:
    
http://acarol.woz.org 
These are great, but the lego one, at least, is a difference engine. The
analytical engine was far more sophisticated and far more capable
('programmable calculator'). I've seen pics of the meccano difference engine,
I
don't recall having seen a meccano analytical engine.