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