The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer

[Terpe]

Anyone managed to watch this?

I found it completely absorbing and totally fascinating.
It's a documentary about something called the Antikythera Mechanism. A 2,000-year-old object now regarded as the world's oldest computer that you probably never heard of.

It tells the story of how the object was found and the decades spent investigating how it was made and what it's purpose was.
There's just enough history too to explain just how advanced the ancient Greeks became.

I'll not give any more of the story away but if your interested it's still available to watch on the iPlayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...rOld_Computer/

Very highly recommended

[les_taxi]

Trouble is they only made one so internet was pointless

[Terpe]

It's an astral computer of stunning mathematical genius and jaw-dropping engineering technology.

[imagine]

I watched this over a year ago, and was very interesting, along with facts that if it wasn't for ancient muslims genius inventions many things we wouldn't have today,