World's First Computer Rebuilt, Rebooted After 2,000 Years

[Brian King]

World's First Computer Rebuilt, Rebooted After 2,000 Years
By Charlie Sorrel
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/2000-year-old-a.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp (http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/2000-year-old-a.html?npu=1&mbid=yhp)



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

I thought the story and the video linked fascinating. I wonder if it means there is hope for that old box in my back room that hasn’t ran in years. The art work and the technology combined is really something with this piece.

Regards
Brian King

[terryl965]

Very nice find Thank you

[Sukerkin]

Nice to see that someone has resurrected this remarkable machine.

It is the existence of such things that fuels my imagination when I start thinking of how the 'history' that we have is sometimes much more fragmentary and deceptive than we think.

[Bob Hubbard]

Cool!

[bluekey88]

I don't care who you are...that's just cool right there.

Think about it, when asked, "what did you do today?" he gets to say "I booted up a 200 year old computer and it works."

That pretty much wins any techie conversation....hell pretty much ANY conversation :)

Peace,
Erik

[CoryKS]

...aaand four hours later, a fifteen-year-old from Latvia posted a howto on Slashdot explaining how to mod this thing to run Linux.

/ a Beowulf cluster of these, imagine it

[arnisador]

a Beowulf cluster of these, imagine it

I love it!