Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Antikythera Mechanism, sometimes described as the world's oldest computer, on display at the Archaeological Museum in Athens.

More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would not be matched for centuries. Hidden inside a corroded lump recovered from ...

Many amateur astronomers know the familiar thrum of small motors guiding an automated telescope under a tranquil night sky. Powered by a computer within a plastic box attached to the scope, this ...

The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true purpose, ...

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I have reading up on the the "glory days" of the microcomputer. You know, the C64 and Amiga, Atari ST and 8 bit series, etc. Are these systems of any use these days? Would it possible to connect to ...

Per the story by Geeks UTLD, the research was conducted by some of the most esteemed scientists along with the University of St. Andrews. The collaboration by the University was with scientists coming ...