The oldest computer in the world!!

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The Antikythera Mechanism
The secrets of one of the most remarkable technological finds from Ancient Greece have been probed for the first time using powerful X-ray imaging equipment, specially shipped to Athens.
The Antikythera Mechanism as it is known, is regarded as the world's oldest "computer" and is thought to have been used to predict solar and lunar eclipses and record dates of the ancient Olympiad. Its remains were recovered from a Roman shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece in 1901.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

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I wonder what AV they used? :p
Eset of course!!:p
Thank you venustus for the news about the Antikythera Mechanism, very interesting!
I have always been interested in this ancient Greek mechanism, for many years already!
You are welcome!:)
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