Computing pre-history
Sep 02, 2019
2 minutes
ne of the earliest machines to be accepted as an analog computer is the Antikythera Mechanism. Dated to around 100 BC, it was used in astronomy to determine the positions of celestial bodies decades in advance. Only fragments of it remain, but detailed. It only has a Windows executable, but it runs under Wine.
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