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
The Antikythera Mechanism was not a digital computer.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.)
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- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.