slothrop @lemmy.cacake to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago5,000 mysterious holes carved into a Peruvian hillside were an 'ancient computer' used for accounting - 10bmnews10bmnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square32linkfedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down17
arrow-up1117arrow-down1external-link5,000 mysterious holes carved into a Peruvian hillside were an 'ancient computer' used for accounting - 10bmnews10bmnews.comslothrop @lemmy.cacake to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square32linkfedilink
minus-squareteyrnon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoThey found that cool Greek analouge sort of computer in the Mediterranean from bc era. This article I think is full of shit by the way and this is not cool at all for use as a computer, you think the computers in the 60s were big. Anyway I think this is the Greek thing.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
minus-squareitkovian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoI know about that one. And yes, it was more advanced than the technology of the age seemed suggest.
Ancient computer sounds so dumb.
They found that cool Greek analouge sort of computer in the Mediterranean from bc era.
This article I think is full of shit by the way and this is not cool at all for use as a computer, you think the computers in the 60s were big.
Anyway I think this is the Greek thing.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
I know about that one. And yes, it was more advanced than the technology of the age seemed suggest.