Antikythera mechanism - humanity's oldest known computer
Revealed: world's oldest computer
The Guardian August 20, 2006
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The "Antikythera mechanism," found
amid the wreckage of a cargo ship
that sunk off the tiny island of
Antikythera in 80 BC, is the world's
oldest computer, used to map the
motions of the sun, moon and...
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