To: mimi from mi
I caught that too.
It’s one of those unanswerable questions like who invented the first car? There are too many qualified distinctions.
The Chinese abacus was really the first computer.
3 posted on
10/08/2008 7:55:37 PM PDT by
ElkGroveDan
(Reagan is back, and this time he's a woman.)
To: ElkGroveDan
not really it was cave men
5 posted on
10/08/2008 7:57:43 PM PDT by
al baby
(Hi mom I know McCain couldnÂ’t answer her in a flippant way, but IF HE COULD it would have nice to)
To: ElkGroveDan
Sumeria had an abacus around 2300BC. A simple columnar table, followed by Babylonians, Egyptians, Iranians, Greeks, Romans.. each getting more sophisticated, then the Chinese around 14th century AD.
Then there was the Antikythera mechanism discovered in a shipwreck off Greece, dating to around 150~100BC. The first known mechanical computer, used for astronomical observations.
To: ElkGroveDan; mimi from mi; Salamander
"It’s one of those unanswerable questions like who invented the first car?"
The correct answer in both cases is Carl Jung.
43 posted on
10/08/2008 10:56:04 PM PDT by
shibumi
(...vampire outlaw of the milky way...)
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