#mechanical computers

[thecomputermagazine]

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck

// interesting article about the Antikythera mechanism

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck

Researchers say they've used gravitational wave reserach statistics to solve an Antikythera mechanism mystery.

[the-recollection]

Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers

A 1953 training film for a mechanical fire control computer aboard Navy Ships. Amazing how problems of mathematical computation were solved so elegantly in "permanent" mechanical form, before microprocessors became inexpensive and commonplace.

[rdsathene]

UCLA's 1948 Mechanical Computer

See the full details at UCLA's Newsroom site: Video: 1948 mechanical computer at UCLA

[whichlights]

"Designing and recreating a wood-and-glass computer used in the 16th century" (Context for the previous photo post, which I have just discovered via that post. And there goes 30 minutes past bedtime…)