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2000-year-old computer recreated

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com... A working model of an ancient computer was recently recreated in London.  
 
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Latusajo (17 hours ago) Show Hide
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" usually electronic "-usually-
"programmable" =different gears>different output
" retrieve "=starts working from last point so data are same
"process"= turning the handle
" store "= handle not moving data stay same.
All the words from the definition seem to fit hockeyguy
Latusajo (17 hours ago) Show Hide
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there are many methods to find age of items using chemicals xrays and fancy stuff. ofc it could be 1990bc or something ...but thats small difference
Rane909 (20 hours ago) Show Hide
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wow... ok, so not literally ones and zeros, i figured i would atleast attempt lamens terms, and by the i have been building pc's since i first dumpster dived behind intel. so and yes - "using a metal disc and a needle to etch in information"
thats how the inside of a hard drive ACTUALLY works, check it out sometime.
SpectralForm (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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lets just say ,
its one hell of a clock + calander and a planaterium
(as in showing were all our planets are)
made 2000 years ago... amazing
makes me wonder whats true abouth ancient lightbulb and planes
hell even the picture of a helicopter inside a piramide
so mutch knowledge destroyed
PatriotsOath (1 week ago) Show Hide
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People are too gullible to believe what the REAL truth is. It's obvious very advanced civilizations were around much longer than we "humans" have been. It's all about the status quo nowadays. All the lies, religions, tv shows and news media are just many ways to keep everyone brainwashed to what's really going on.
Landrew0 (5 days ago) Show Hide
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I don't believe the helicopter in the pyramid theory. Those shapes come together a lot of other ways too, not just resembling what we recognize as a helicopter.
conspiracyninja (2 days ago) Show Hide
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many historians and scientists around the world are actually now agreeing that the ancients aren't the primitive ones, instead we are.
have you heard of the ancient stargates found around earth, very intriguing.
lol i could go on about all sorts of ancient wonders all day, heck maybe even for years. XD
SkidTheSamurai (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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True. If you think of things that way imagine all the inventors who took credit for inventions that they might not have been the first to think of. Destroying any kind of knowledge back then was a very popular thing to do because it was considered a weapon.
Rane909 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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wow... so out of line, so if i told you that the whole reason you were even able to read this setence is due to a mechanical drive using a metal disc and a needle to etch in ones and zeros and move across in a lateral fassion from most inner ring to outer ring in order to write and read data therefor calculating numbers to COMPUTE information you would still think of a "computer" to be limited to a chip board?
grmasdfII (3 days ago) Show Hide
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its obvious that you don't have any idea what you are talking about.

"using a metal disc and a needle to etch in ones and zeros"
:DD
made my day.

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