From the New York Times comes a story that the 2,200 year-old “Antikythera Mechanism,” sometimes called the world’s first computer, “has now been examined with the latest in high-resolution imaging systems and three-dimensional X-ray tomography.”

What did the scientists discover that surprised them? That it ran on the Windows OS.

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Time posted: 5:40 pm on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

One Response to “2,200 year-old ‘computer’ surprises scientists”

  1. Hudge Says:

    If it ran on Windows, it’s no surprise that it wound up at the bottom of the sea. They were probably using it to navigate and it crashed. Then they did, too.

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