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i saw a programme about this on bbc 4 a few months ago http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hlkcq - wonder about the claims about it being a computer i may have a copy of the it somewhere. On 15 October 2014 07:08, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 14/10/14 22:42, Paul Sutton wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> This seems interesting >> >> >> http://www.history.com/news/divers-excavate-greek-shipwreck-dubbed-ancient-titanic >> >> To quote the relevant part of the article >> >> >> recovered the fragments of an ancient mechanical device that would be >> dubbed the âAntikythera Mechanism.â Until the late 1950s, it lay in >> the National Museum in Athens, mistakenly identified as an astrolabe, >> a primitive instrument used to tell time and make astronomical >> measurements. But thanks to scholarly research, it is now thought to >> be an ancient âcomputer,â built to calculate the movements of stars >> and planets in order to predict astronomical events such as eclipses. >> >> >> So what exactly is this device ? Imagine where we would be if someone >> had seen the potential 2000 years ago, >> >> >> Paul >> - -- http://www.zleap.net >> @zleap14 diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1 >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlQ9mLkACgkQaggq1k2FJq21qwCfUuvyd/ZKKFQV7XUBsmFxYXFP >> DmkAn1fb9wzCJjMqlsaJqHdwYtxOfOEa >> =3R3L >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > Is not a computer as we know it - it doesnât make decisions, It does show > the motions of the planet and predict eclipses so you could call it an > analogue computer. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism is a good read. The > mechanism is mind blowingly good and believed being made by Archimedes (now > there's a case for nominative determinism!) > Tom te tom te tom > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq