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The first computer

#1 Post by jarnon » Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:36 pm

There's a sign on the Penn campus honoring ENIAC (1946), calling it the world's first digital computer. I've also heard of Babbage's proposed analytical engine and its programmer Ada Lovelace. But the Antikythera Mechanism predates them by 2,000 years.

Mystery of ancient ‘computer’ found among the remains of 2,200-year-old shipwreck

(The original Haaretz article is behind a paywall.)
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Re: The first computer

#2 Post by Bob Juch » Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:54 pm

jarnon wrote:There's a sign on the Penn campus honoring ENIAC (1946), calling it the world's first digital computer. I've also heard of Babbage's proposed analytical engine and its programmer Ada Lovelace. But the Antikythera Mechanism predates them by 2,000 years.

Mystery of ancient ‘computer’ found among the remains of 2,200-year-old shipwreck

(The original Haaretz article is behind a paywall.)
The Antikythera Mechanism was not a digital computer.
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