16 Oct
2008
16 Oct
'08
12:11 p.m.
Richard wrote:
Sorry, no. I don't want this to degenerate into
another "but my
pebble stacking box from 1500 BC is the first!" thread. I'm looking
for genuine information along the directions in which I'm asking, not
contorted attempts to turn any arbitrary device by some stretch of the
imagination into a "computer graphics" device.
I know you have the '0's but,
Sorry ONES's where invented about 1400 BC. :)
Yet when you think about they all were FIRST, since the computer
and I/O devices where invented indepenedant of each other, and
about the same time. The only common idea was you could calculate
using electricity rather than wheels and gears.