Subject: World's Oldest Computer? From: "William J. Rapaport" Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:45:32 -0500 (EST) The "Antikythera Mechanism", dating from around 80BCE, is sometimes considered to be the oldest "computer" (or, at least, calculating device). Here's a recent article about what it could do and how it worked: Freeth, Tony (2009), "Decoding an Ancient Computer", Scientific American 301(6) (December): 76-83. www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/S10/Private/freeth09-antikythera-sciam.pdf For more on the Antikythera Mechanism, link to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/whatisacomputer.html#antikythera