▲ 116 ▼ 5,000 mysterious holes carved into a Peruvian hillside were an 'ancient computer' used for accounting - 10bmnews (10bmnews.com) submitted 5 months ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world 32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children) Ancient computer sounds so dumb. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) They found that cool Greek analouge sort of computer in the Mediterranean from bc era. This article I think is full of shit by the way and this is not cool at all for use as a computer, you think the computers in the 60s were big. Anyway I think this is the Greek thing.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] itkovian@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago I know about that one. And yes, it was more advanced than the technology of the age seemed suggest. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) They found that cool Greek analouge sort of computer in the Mediterranean from bc era. This article I think is full of shit by the way and this is not cool at all for use as a computer, you think the computers in the 60s were big. Anyway I think this is the Greek thing.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] itkovian@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago I know about that one. And yes, it was more advanced than the technology of the age seemed suggest. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago I know about that one. And yes, it was more advanced than the technology of the age seemed suggest. permalink fedilink source parent