Looks like the Greeks got a big jump on Bills gates!
This story sounds like a movie plot not real science, but it is real.
"A working reconstruction of an ancient Greek computer, the Antikythera mechanism, which was found at the bottom of the ocean in 1900 has been unveiled and is on display at the Technopolis museum, in Athens. The device is believed to have been used to calculate the positions of various celestial bodies including the sun and the moon on any given date. While some guesswork was required in the reconstruction, the bulk of the design is based on updated X-ray photographs of the device."
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Video: 3D animation of the mechanical computer
Video: The computer's inner workings
