Were Greeks 1,400 years ahead of their time?

The Scotsman ^ | June 7, 2006 | EBEN HARRELL

[aculeus]

A handout photo shows the Antikythera Mechanism (R), a mysterious bronze device recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck located in 1900, and its x-ray made by a Greek-British team of scientists at the Athens National Archaeological Museum. Photograph:X-TEK GROUP/AFP/Getty Images

[Al Simmons]

The History Channel program on the Antikythera mechanism was awesome...as were their other shows on ancient technologies like the first steam engine...

[billorites]

Yeah, I had one of those.

[MarkeyD]

I HEART Wordstar.

[billorites]

Ctrl/K D

[ShakeNJake]

Ctrl/K S

[clyde asbury]

bttt

[MarkeyD]

I have even mapped Word to the Wordstar Diamond.

Damn Word and it's lack of persistent blocks.

[xcamel]

[MindBender26]

Remember "Electric Pencil" running on TRSDOS in the 70s.

[Billthedrill]

The mechanism contains over 30 bronze wheels and dials and was probably operated by hand, Mr Edmunds said.

That or they had a nuclear reactor way ahead of their time...

[george76]

the Antikythera Mechanism may be the world's oldest computer, used by the Greeks to predict the motion of the planets.

[ShakeNJake]

LOL! I hated Word when it first came out and refused to use it.

Hey, I even used the CPM/80 version for Apple IIe of Wordstar, Calcstar, and Datastar! Now that was back in the day!

[beyond the sea]

"FOR decades, researchers have been baffled by the intricate bronze mechanism of wheels and dials created 80 years before the birth of Christ." ----

Patrick Heron -

http://www.nephilimapocalypse.com/_welcome/welcome.asp

By the way .................. “Apocalypse” in Greek means the UNVEILING.

[battlegearboat]

Acropolis Now

[humblegunner]

Yeah, I had one of those.

.Dir

[MarkeyD]

Me too, but I used it on this:

Heath Z-100

[edpc]

I saw the program on the History Channel. What was really impressive was the fact the mechanism was hand-made. The show also demonstrated how the Greeks also had an early version of the flame-thrower and napalm. They used it as a devastating naval weapon. Great show.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Xenophon Moussas

Typical Greek geek name!

[Al Simmons]

And don't forget "Archimedes' Death Ray" that he used to set the ships of the Roman Navy afire during the Roman siege of Syracuse...both a Greek historian in the 1970s, and, more recently, The Myth Busters showed that it could (fairly easily) be accomplished by focusing the sun's rays with hundreds of mirrors (or highly polished shields, as Archimedes had the Syracusan Army do) on one point on the side of the ship......