OT- Little 2000 year old philosophy and SEIV

[Kamog]

What is the Archimedes computer? Did he actually make a computer?

[Taz-in-Space]

I think Tnarg is referring to a device that was found in the Med. It was a device that used gearing to calculate something, perhaps astronomical. It was very badly corroded from exposure to salt water. IMO it raises more questions than it answers. But at least it shows that mechanical gearing was known at sometime in the distant past...

[Baron Munchausen]

The Antikythera Device seems to have been an astronomical computer. Exactly what it was used for is still a subject of speculation. Could have been for navigation, but could also have been for astrology.

http://www.economist.com/displaystor...ory_id=1337165

http://www.giant.net.au/Users/rupert...ra/kythera.htm