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Bookmark or Share- Antikythera Mechanism, The Ancient Greeks' 2,000-Year-Old ComputerFirst discovered by divers in 1901, the 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism used tiny gears to track heavenly bodies with such precision that it's called history's oldest computer.
- Antikythera mechanism - WikipediaIt is the oldest known example of an analogue computer. [3][4][5] It could be used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. [6][7][8] It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games similar to an Olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games. [9][10][11]
- Discover the 9 Oldest Computers in The World - History-ComputerThe Antikythera Mechanism is regarded as the oldest computer in the world. It was found on a Roman-era shipwreck near modern-day Greece and is thought to be up to 2,000 years old. What was the first electronic computer? The first fully electric, general-purpose computer was the ENIAC, created in 1945 at the University of Pennsylvania.
- 10 Oldest Computers in The WorldAlthough the vast majority of the computers that we know about today were created within the past 100 years, human ingenuity dates back further than many of us can likely imagine. To help put this in perspective, here are the 10 oldest known computers.
- Harwell computer - WikipediaThe Harwell computer, or Harwell Dekatron computer, [1] [2] later known as the Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell (WITCH), [3] is an early British computer of the 1950s based on valves and relays. From 2009 to 2012, it was restored at the National Museum of Computing. [4]
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