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Read more: www.newscientist.com A working model of an ancient computer was recently recreated in London.
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@RoyalRamirez And that notion right there my friend, is why religion has been keeping us back for the last 2000 years.
@Auquis o_O you’re cool…
@RoyalRamirez fuck off
how much ram on that thing? 1 kb ?
can i play Crysis on this?
That’s fucking amazing…
(Ecclesiastes 1:9) What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
@backspace1904
Haha!
And it’s still better than Vista
win
@kribar96 carbon dating.
cool
@tiagom135 As in, it computes things…
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Could I but it?
computer?
how do you know it is 2000 years-old not 1999 years-old
@chechnya
Websters (and obviously you as well) only look at what we today know as a ‘computer.’ If we think back far enough we get what led to the word computer, i.e. device that could perform calculations, i.e. compute(r). (See ‘Bletchley Park’ on Wiki’) Storage only came later.
Any devise that can therefore perform calculations, even from 2000 years ago, can righlty be called a computer
I was expecting more from a 2000 year old computer.
@Shakespeare1612 Suspicious quotation marks
@chechnya It can “Store” the possitions of the planets, calculate the current date, or the amount of time left until the next olympic games or the next ellicpse, and can give you back, this “output” far more quickly then you’d be able to do by hand. It computes. What’s the problem?
Computer? According to Websters a computer is: a programmable usually electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data. Yeah, I don’t think so.
i just ran crysis on this.. get around 30-40 fps on medium settings
very impressive for 2000 year old tool!