18 Jun
1998
18 Jun
'98
1:44 p.m.
P.S.: The
first calculatin machine might be the one of
Wilhelm Schickard from 1623.
Johann Kepler tried to build some kind of calculator too I think. 
18 Jun
18 Jun
1:04 p.m.
New subject: 8008 Datasheets
Does anybody have Intel 8008 datasheets that they're willing to copy for
me? I'll gladly pay for the copying/shipping.
-- Doug
3:04 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Jeff Kaneko wrote:
Does Blaise Pascal's box count?
Yes, but Pascal was born in 1623 so Schickard's device most likely beats
whatever Pascal developed in his lifetime (I think he was 18 when he
invented it).
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P.S.: The first calculatin machine might be the one
of
Wilhelm Schickard from 1623.
Johann Kepler tried to build some kind of calculator too I think. 
7:13 p.m.
P.S.: The
first calculatin machine might be the one of
Wilhelm Schickard from 1623.
Johann Kepler tried to build some kind of calculator too I think. 
9:06 p.m.
Rax wrote:
Late-comers, all of them. My vote for the earliest computer is the
Antikythera Device, a bronze mechanical lunar month calculator built
in
Greece about 80AD.
A very interesting book I was given some number of months ago is titled
"The Origins of Digital Computers" which is a selection of papers edited
by Brian Randell. It includes papers by Babbage, Hollerith, Zues,
Schreyer, Aiken, Phillips, J. von Neumann, and quite a few others. I
don't know how hard to come by this book is but it well deserves a place
in any collectors library.
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