Rob wrote:
On 01/07/07, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
wrote:
> I wonder if they did not have slaves, they would have developed
> higher mechanical engineering and perhaps development of a mechanical
> calculating engine?
Like this one?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism>
I was thinking of something more digital than that.They developed
philosophy and out of that came digital logic. In hind sight
the computers seem to have developed because of punched paper - cards
or tape and that item the greeks never had.
Could the abacus be modified to calculate mechanicaly
by the use of paper tape, as the was the model of calculating
at the time?