This is quite interesting for all of us

This should be an interesting thread, and no mention of fucking DIF or TPV

Ooparts are always fascinating, throws everything we know about history into kilter.

www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/12/2000-year-old-a/






World’s First Computer Rebuilt, Rebooted After 2,000 Years
BY CHARLIE SORREL12.16.084:13 AM

A British museum curator has built a working replica of a 2,000-year-old Greek machine that has been called the world’s first computer.




A dictionary-size assemblage of 37 interlocking dials crafted with the precision and complexity of a 19th-century Swiss clock, the Antikythera mechanism was used for modeling and predicting the movements of the heavenly bodies as well as the dates and locations of upcoming Olympic games.

The original 81 shards of the Antikythera were recovered from under the sea (near the Greek island of Antikythera) in 1902, rusted and clumped together in a nearly indecipherable mass. Scientists dated it to 150 B.C. Such craftsmanship wouldn’t be seen for another 1,000 years — but its purpose was a mystery for decades.

Many scientists have worked since the 1950s to piece together the story, with the help of some very sophisticated imaging technology in recent years, including X-ray and gamma-ray imaging and 3-D computer modeling.

Now, though, it has been rebuilt. As is almost always the way with these things, it was an amateur who cracked it. Michael Wright, a former curator at the Science Museum in London, has built a replica of the Antikythera, which works perfectly.

In the video from New Scientist below, Wright shows how the machine works.

In short, Antikythera’s user interface is deceptively simple, operated by a simple knob on the side. This conceals the intricacy within, amounting to a complex mathematical model, tracking the movements of planetary bodies and incorporating a series of submechanisms to account for the eccentricities of their rotation.

A dial on the faceplace featured the Greek zodiac and an
Egyptian calendar; pointers showed the location of the moon and the five planets known at the time. On the machine’s back, an upper dial shows a 19-year calendar (matching the solunar cycle) and the timing of upcoming Olympic games. A lower dial shows a 76-year cycle (when the Olympic and solunar cycles coincide) and indicates the months in which lunar and solar eclipses can be expected.

According to New Scientist, this is the first working model of the Antikythera computer to include all of the device’s known features. And, like the original machine, it has been built of recycled metal plates. That’s right: The Antikythera mechanism is not only the world’s oldest computer, it’s also the world’s first green computer.

2000-year-old computer recreated - YouTube



Antikythera: A 2,000-year-old Greek computer comes back to life [Guardian. Thanks, Keith!]

Image: The Antikythera Mechanism’s Olympic dial. Courtesy Antikythera Mechanism Research Project.

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andyh wrote:

Seems after the destruction of High Technology in Atlantis, Many things in MODERN times were re-discovered....

Have you listened to Ciggy's interview on his book, Merchants of magic, the Atlantean meme? think you'd enjoy it chand (although you have to fast forward to the 18 min mark) www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.j...asterId=99739&cmd=tc

Liliths F_U wrote:

Yeah, Ciggy let me read part of his book as he was writing it in IL, in the Atlantic thread. I will listen to the audio just the same,
Thank you Lilliths F_U.