World's First Computer, thousands of years old is reconstructed.

[Raziaar]

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/2000-year-old-a.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrfMFhrgOFc

In short, Antikythera's user interface is deceptively simple, operated by a simple knob on the side. This conceals the intricacy within, amounting to a complex mathematical model, tracking the movements of planetary bodies and incorporating a series of submechanisms to account for the eccentricities of their rotation.

 

[Naph]

Wonder if it'll run Space Quest.

 

[MJ12]

Greeks were such clever mother****ers.

 

[Higlac]

That toaster is certainly powerful enough to run HL:2

 

[jet_porkins]

I was expecting to watch the video and conclude that it's not a computer, just some archeologist trying to praise the ancients for their masterful technologies of the time.

But, wow, that is freaking AWESOME.

 

[lefty]

uh, wut.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I'm glad I brought my adblock.
And its just a clock.

 

[Pesmerga]

runs crysis at 35fps

 

[Shakermaker]

I saw the original when I was in Athens earlier this year. Such an ingenious device.

 

[highlander]

solitaire anyone?

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Will it run on my 486?

Ha ha, you nailed it, Farrow.

 

[99.vikram]

And its just a clock.

And a computer is just a set of circuits. :|

It's pretty damn awesome.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Nice. Those g(r)eeks were real brainiacs.

 

[Omnomnick]

Wow, pretty cool for something that is thousands of years old.

 

[nurizeko]

Well what did you know, the young smart minds of Greece used to be able to create rather then destroy.

 

[lePobz]

Don't buy one just yet, wait for the 3G model next year.