On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Steve Thomas <sthom...@gosargon.com> wrote: > Here's a pop quiz (you will be graded on this and it will go on your > PERMANENT record :) > What is the oldest computer we know about?
If one thinks about computation in a broad sense, the various monolithic structures with celestial orientations to solstices, etc. are probably the oldest computing devices. Who knew that optical computing was such an old idea? The Antikytherea is often described as the first analog computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism cjl _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
