18 Jun
1998
18 Jun
'98
6:06 p.m.
Rax wrote:
Late-comers, all of them. My vote for the earliest computer is the
Antikythera Device, a bronze mechanical lunar month calculator built
in
Greece about 80AD.
A very interesting book I was given some number of months ago is titled
"The Origins of Digital Computers" which is a selection of papers edited
by Brian Randell. It includes papers by Babbage, Hollerith, Zues,
Schreyer, Aiken, Phillips, J. von Neumann, and quite a few others. I
don't know how hard to come by this book is but it well deserves a place
in any collectors library.