Sunday, December 21, 2008

Recreation of "Oldest Computer"

Wired has an article (with a demonstration video) about a British scientist who has made a working reconstruction of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism.  The device, consisting of a complex series of rotating metal disks is several thousand years old and is believed to have been used for astronomical calculations.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And here I thought Colossus was the oldest computer. At least there's still a British tie-in.

Chris said...

They're everywhere those British.