From analog computers that are thousands of years old to lost military technology, there are some ancient discoveries worth looking into. What makes many lost technologies so interesting is how ...

NOVA follows the ingenious sleuthing that finally decoded the truth behind the amazing ancient Greek computer. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding ...

An Ancient Greek Computer In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for ...

It could also determine the dates of the ancient Olympic Games held every four years and ... Whilst the mechanism has been called the world’s oldest analogue computer, the sophistication of the device ...

Remember the ZEOS Pocket PC? Perhaps you knew it as the Tidalwave PS-1000. Either way, it was a small clamshell computing device that was first released all the way back in 1992, and perhaps most ...

The PC was widely fitted with either 5.25″ or 3.5″ disk drives, but other formats such as the older 8″ discs were not a fixture in the 16-bit desktop computing world. It’s something [Jozef ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.