Is this the world's oldest computer? Before the 11th century

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Is this the world's oldest computer?

A team of scientists have unlocked the secrets of what is believed to be an ancient Greek astronomical analogue computer. The computer was centuries ahead of its time, with nothing comparable to it appearing before the 11th century.

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Ancient Greek Computer The Antikythera Mechanism: In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars and planets.

[texxs]

I heard about this, it's an interesting story. Good luck getting a definition of a computer, the dictionary says its someone or something that computes, under compute it says "to calculate" under caqlculate it says "to do math or quess"
By that definition, a handful of rocks would be a computer, or perhaps it would the person using the rocks to count with i quess

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4 parts to a Computer!!

This is what I was told at College:-

1) Storage
2) ALU =Arithmetic Logic Unit
3) Input
4) Output

Don't know if above has all of these, Storage is this good enough as being left in the position of the calculation?

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[timmathews.com]

That is very cool!

[Orion]

Totally Wicked!

So those Romans delayed us going to the moon by about 1000 years eh?

Just think our great great great great grandparents could have been blogging!

... but seriously... it's kinda cool

[timmathews.com]

Ahh, yes. If only the blog were available.
Man, can you thin about the possible advances that the blog could have helped start?

[lanyunsky]

there are lots of mysteries that we couldn't explain.
such as pyramid.Bermuda Triangle....etc. I think the
old computer it is so.

[anuvatech]

yes definatly

[florence]

Totally unbelievable...




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