Oldest computer

Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 959 points –

Someone hacked a pregnancy test to play doom. There used to be a Reddit sub /r/itrunsdoom for unconventional media to run doom on.

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Wait so is that like basically different clock mechanisms hooked into each other?

the ancient greeks came up with their own model to track and predict

  • the positions of the planets
  • the position of the sun
  • the position and phase of the moon
  • solar and lunar eclipses

this machine is basically their mathematical models summarized into mechanical form