The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...
The Antikythera mechanism, a first-century BC Greek device recovered from a shipwreck, is an analog computer designed to track and predict celestial movements, including the phases and orbit of the ...
The illustration celebrates a lump of bronze from a Roman shipwreck that turned out to be a forgotten piece of computer history. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on ...
A computer that processes analog data is known as an analog computer. Analog computers store information in physical quantities in a continuous format and use measurements to perform computation.