4 Nov
2006
4 Nov
'06
9:18 a.m.
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
--- Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
No, but I downloaded it off bittorrent and attempted to watch it. I
have no idea how I made it through as much of it as I did when I was a
kid, but there you go. It's utterly incomprehensible to me now.
Gordon.
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Robert Feldman wrote:
> No, quipus were to record information, not perfo
rm
computations or logic.
aralquipu.htm
Wow, that is old.
All this talk of quipu's reminds me of one of my
favourite cartoon shows from the early 80's -
Mysterious Cities Of Gold. I don't suppose
anyone knows of any games based on it? Also, they appeared a couple of thousand years
after Stonehenge. Most quipus
are Inka, which date them after ca. 1100 AD,
although, IIRC, there are Wari
quipus (ca 500AD). The Moche (200 BC-400AD)
possibly used colored beans in a
similar way (the first bean counters!).
Oldest found so far is about 3000BC !
http://archaeology.about.com/od/ancientwriting/a/c