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World’s oldest computer recreated in Lego

10 December 2010 LJM

Here’s something way cool, via SF writer Walter Jon Williams. Did you know that a mechanical computer was created 2,000 years ago in Greece (Antikythera, to be exact)? Now some folks have created a replica using Legos.

New Scientist TV: World’s oldest computer recreated in Lego.

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