I know, I was being pedantic.
Re: Metal scraps said to be computing device
I know, I was being pedantic.
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Re: Metal scraps said to be computing device
Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall
Stop that! I have an exclusivity clause in my pedantry, pedagoguery and general pissantness contract! I'll sue.
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Re: Metal scraps said to be computing device
'elp! 'e's repressin' me!Stop that! I have an exclusivity clause in my pedantry, pedagoguery and general pissantness contract! I'll sue.
Seriously though, the Greek computer is very cool. I wonder how hard it was to make.
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Re: Metal scraps said to be computing device
...bugger.
Okay, so it's an early analog computer.
*sulk*
I'll still maintain that it was really just a really complicated, expensive toy though - that the technology was apparently simply forgotten after a while rather suggests nobody came up with any particularly practical use for it.
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Re: Metal scraps said to be computing device
OK, it's a really awesome ancient clock/astronomical device, that is established. Tell me, however, why this thread, that under normal circumstances such as the ones that are present right now would not cause any problems or controversy, deserves to be in the back room?
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Re: Metal scraps said to be computing device
Time will tell.
Re: Metal scraps said to be computing device
...a wizard did it ?
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