Oldest computer
Oldest computer
Someone hacked a pregnancy test to play doom. There used to be a Reddit sub /r/itrunsdoom for unconventional media to run doom on.
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My hot take: it's not really a "computer" unless it's Turing-complete. The Antikythera mechanism is incredibly cool and all, but it can only perform a finite, fixed set of calculations and thus fails to meet that definition.
53 4 ReplyWhat's your take on the E6B flight computer?
3 0 ReplyTechnically it's a computer because it can compute something, it's just not a universal computer.
71 0 ReplyRight, so you consider calculators to be computers too? And I don't mean the beefy scientific calculators, just simple ones with basic operations.
3 0 ReplyYup. I explain old automatic transmissions as Hydraulic Computers.
8 0 ReplyPorn?
18 0 ReplyCan it go up to 80085?
21 0 Replyunzip
12 0 ReplyYes, most computers should also be able to run WinRAR.
9 2 ReplyWhy do people still use WinRAR? 7zip is free, and open source.
2 1 ReplyIt was fucking joke.
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