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  • johnbeetem
    johnbeetem over 11 years ago +3
    I'd go with Charles Babbage . Even though he was unable to complete his Analytical Engine, it did embody the concepts necessary for general-purpose computing. According to the linked Wikipage: "It would…
  • D_Hersey
    D_Hersey over 11 years ago +3
    Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Was just a stop on the way.
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    D_Hersey over 9 years ago +3
    From Pickover, Poland 1959 (my birth year) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AKAT-1.JPG
  • clem57
    clem57 over 9 years ago

    Another cool not relevant picture:

    Nucleosynthesis_Cmglee_1280.jpg

     

    We can thank large stars and supernovae for the element we love so much ===> S I L I C O N!

     

    Clem

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  • D_Hersey
    D_Hersey over 9 years ago

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    Not relevant, just cool.  From Cliff Pickover.  John Conway playing life.

     

    Cliff Pickover's RealityCarnival

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  • D_Hersey
    D_Hersey over 9 years ago in reply to clem57

    They imputed entropy to round-off error

     

    They believed in atoms because they knew the universe was discontinuous

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 9 years ago in reply to D_Hersey

    Makes sense since the star move like clockwork.

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    D_Hersey over 9 years ago

    The Greeks of classical times thought the entire universe was a computer

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 9 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    But we are an electronics forum trickiness aside.

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 9 years ago

    clem57 - a bit of a trick question perhaps, as I believe that 'computer' originally referred to that of a person who computes/calculates (e.g. someone who created mathematical tables) and thus the term computer was presumably in use long before the mechanical and electronic machines appeared on the scene. So I'd probably have to go with 'mother nature' as the inventor.

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  • D_Hersey
    D_Hersey over 9 years ago in reply to D_Hersey

    http://www.multivaluedlogic.com/

     

    The ternary calculating machine of Thomas Fowler

     

    Development of ternary computers at Moscow State University. Russian Virtual Computer Museum

     

    Qui-binary arithmetic: how a 1960s IBM mainframe does math

     

    Sorry, Clem, dunno what happened, the link icon was acting oddly this morning, try these.

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 9 years ago in reply to D_Hersey

    All links point to same place and are bad.

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    D_Hersey over 9 years ago in reply to D_Hersey

    http://www.mortati.com/glusker/fowler/index.htm

    http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm

     

    http://www.multivaluedlogic.com/

     

    http://www.righto.com/2015/10/qui-binary-arithmetic-how-1960s-ibm.html

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