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cww
21-10-2005, 08:56 PM
A reconstructed version of the world's oldest computer has been unveiled in Greece.

The 2,000-year-old device was found by chance on the ocean floor more than a century ago.

Michael Wright, a former senior curator at London's Science Museum, unveiled the complex collection of gears and dials at a conference on ancient Greek inventions.

Experts attending the symposium praised the model as the best yet of a device that is believed to have calculated the motions of the sun, moon and planets.

Mr Wright said the shoe-sized box object not only illustrated the ancient Greeks' love for gadgets but how advanced they were technologically.

ABC News

And now... only about 10-15% of Greece is online and we struggle to get DSL :(
Maddy
21-10-2005, 09:15 PM
that would be cool to see 8)
cww
22-10-2005, 02:13 AM
Your wish is... x xxxx xx xxx xxx, but I'll see what I can find
Maddy
22-10-2005, 10:36 AM
ohhhh kisses too thanks cww hey your doing very well for 105 i must say :wink:
Alucard
22-10-2005, 04:52 PM
This reminds me of something unrelated:

Has anyone read anything on time anomoly items? Like bullets lodged in fossils from millions of years ago, or the green glass found in the Middle East that some believe was from a nuclear detonation 6000 years ago???
FisionChips
22-10-2005, 05:01 PM
What 'Timeline' ish (Michael Crichton)?

Found the odd unrecognisable item with prehistoric date on it in the fridge....
Alucard
22-10-2005, 05:33 PM
Yes Michael Crichton mentioned it in that book. Supposedly, there are incongruous fossils that sometimes turn up at dig sites and excavations that make no sense, and are subsequently hidden from the public. This kind of stuff that joins alongside UFOs, crop circles, and the Jesus family kind of conspiracy stuff...
cww
22-10-2005, 08:17 PM
Well, thank you, Maddy! I'm not doing too bad for my age, but then I don't have any bullets lodged in me.

So, Alucard, you saying that Jesus' descendents aren't alive, well, and eating garlicked snails?
Alucard
22-10-2005, 08:40 PM
I never said anything either way...

8)

But of all the people who have claimed to be Jesus or related to him, I haven't seen one person yet who could be considered sane...
cww
22-10-2005, 10:19 PM
of all the people who have claimed to be Jesus or related to him, I haven't seen one person yet who could be considered sane...

Yup!

OK, zimagirl, get 'em signed up here
Alucard
22-10-2005, 11:38 PM
I also wanted to say that the Greek TechnoGadget you mentioned in this post reminded me of Bubo, the mechanical owl from the movie Clash of the Titans...

Remember him??
cww
23-10-2005, 12:11 AM
Hey, Bubo was cute! (and resistant to bird flu)

Here's a few links re the Anti-Kythera Computer... maybe not much to look at but, like Bubo, virus resistant! :roll:

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Kythera.htm
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1337165
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_ell_1996092_15/10/2005_61928
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/antikyth/antikyth.html
http://www.culture.gr/2/21/214/21405m/e21405m4.html

As you can see, it's a portable, but I guess it must pre-date Vasilli Gates - I can't see any sign of any Windows (although it does seem to have a pretty glaring hole in it, so who knows... )