An Ancient Computer Surprises Scientists (Published 2006)
A computer in antiquity would seem to be an anachronism, like Athena ordering takeout on her cellphone. But a century ago, pieces of a strange mechanism with bronze gears and dials were recovered from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Historians of science concluded that this was an instrument that calculated and illustrated astronomical information, particularly phases of the Moon and
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http://www.technobahn.com/cgi-bin/news/read2?f=200612010829
Workings of an ancient computer - Boing Boing
