What is the first computer?

Taschenuhr -> fob watch. Peter Heinlein did the first clock small enough to fit in a pocket. It had the size of a big egg. I don't remember the exactr year, but I think it was in the first half of the 16th century. There are a lot of legendary stories around this device - inclundig the one that his whife had destroyed the first one, since she belived that this thing, going tick-tack must be devils work (remember 16th and 17th century was a or better _the_ high time of witch hunting and dark religous belives - Kepler for example had to defend is mother somewhen in the 1620s agains a triel of witchhood). So she destroyed his masterpice, and he let himself imprisson for the next few month in the city prison, to build a new one without beeing disturbed :) Building small time devices had an impact to trade like calculating machines in the early days of this century. Starting from coach clocks for merchants who lead their 'empire' from their coaches, until fob watches. in the 15th/16th century coach clock was an enormous expensive device - even compared th the expensiv travling coaces, a coach clock could cost up to 5 times the coach ! (Like wehn I put a new Server in my old car :) Servus Hans -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK