mechanical computing
111 Years Ago, an Archaeologist Realized He Had Discovered the World's Oldest Known Computer
'Computer' in one of the older senses of the word. The Antikythera Mechanism is thought to be an astronomical mechanism, capable of predicting both solar eclipses and the Olympiad, which makes it sort of like NBC, but with solar eclipses and no Bob...
How Charles Babbage's Train-Sized Mechanical Computer Worked
Kids these days, with their newfangled computer-phones, hardly bat an eye at the hard drives with _tera_bytes of space and CPUs that clock in at the gigahertz range. They probably all think computers were invented by Steve Jobs and that Bill Gates was...
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