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« on: May 04, 2008, 09:11:30 PM »

Mechanical computers are nothing new. The remains of a 2,000 year old analogue computer known as the Antikythera mechanism were discovered in Greece in 1902.

And during the nineteenth century, English mathematician and engineer Charles Babbage designed various steam powered mechanical computers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6912023.stm

 Laughing Burt shovel some more coal into the boiler , I need to do some computing , I wonder if they tried  to O/C   them ,
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« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2008, 09:33:07 PM »

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I wonder if they tried  to O/C   them ,
Good one there.  :haha:  Probably got to hot.
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« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2008, 11:44:32 AM »

nice one!!!  cheesy
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