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    Experts: Fragments an Ancient Computer

    ATHENS, Greece - Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later. A Roman shipmaster inadvertently did something just like it 2,000 years ago off southern Greece, experts said late Thursday.

    They claim to have identified a handful of puzzling metal scraps found in the wreck as the earliest known mechanical computing device that pinpointed astronomical events.

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    Ahhh... the Antikythera device.

    Remarkable bit of clockwork, that...

    There was a guy who used X-Ray images to reverse engineer the thing. I can't remember the details too well.
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      #3
      Originally posted by DysfunctionalVeteran View Post
      Ahhh... the Antikythera device.

      Remarkable bit of clockwork, that...

      There was a guy who used X-Ray images to reverse engineer the thing. I can't remember the details too well.

      Actually it is really called "Antikythera mechanism"
      Spins and turns, angles and curves, the shape of dreams half remembered. Slip the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of perfection. A perfect face, a perfect lace, find a perfect world for the end of Kara Thrace.
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        damn......wonder if there was something about it in the great library of alexandria.....
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          Originally posted by tombombadil View Post
          damn......wonder if there was something about it in the great library of alexandria.....

          Actually about a year ago I watched something History Channel. There was a few mentions of the Library of Alexandria.
          Spins and turns, angles and curves, the shape of dreams half remembered. Slip the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of perfection. A perfect face, a perfect lace, find a perfect world for the end of Kara Thrace.
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