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The Economist.  A sunken ship from the first century BC recently found reveals the world's first computer.  It was a mechanical computational device for predicting celestial movement and postioning (very useful in navigation).  Imagine the brilliant but unkown (and unlucky) Greek that built this and lost it.

... Mr Wright (a scientist that has built a scale model of the device) is convinced that his epicyclic interpretation is correct, and that the original device modelled the entire known solar system.

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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