10 Dec
2010
10 Dec
'10
6:55 a.m.
Message: 26
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:27:09 -0600
From: Doc Shipley < doc at vaxen.net >
Subject: Re: Wow! Lego Antikythera device -- and it works
Evan Koblentz wrote:
?? I thought the Antikythera Research Project decided a few years ago
that the original did NOT use differential gearing.
?? To be perfectly honest, the fact that the Antikythera incorporates
the first known User Guide impresses me as much as the technology....
????????Doc
The report in The Register ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/10/lego_computer/ )
includes some additional links, including one to an interesting article in Nature News
from Nov. 24th at http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101124/full/468496a.html .
Bob