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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Nigel on July 09, 2014, 03:59:48 PM

Title: 250 Year Old Robot.
Post by: Nigel on July 09, 2014, 03:59:48 PM

Have a look at this. Claimed to be one of the earliest forms of computer, you be the judge. :wht11





https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=opkNdtT8ALo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=opkNdtT8ALo)

Title: Re: 250 Year Old Robot.
Post by: curious1 on July 09, 2014, 06:53:35 PM

Have seen similar things before. They are amazing mechanical clockworks to entertain the rich people in the past but calling it a computer is a bit to much since the output is fix programmed and no user input is required apart from winding the spring.
Alf

Title: Re: 250 Year Old Robot.
Post by: Biggles on July 09, 2014, 09:15:12 PM

Quote from: curious1 on July 09, 2014, 06:53:35 PM

Have seen similar things before. They are amazing mechanical clockworks to entertain the rich people in the past but calling it a computer is a bit to much since the output is fix programmed and no user input is required apart from winding the spring.
Alf

Ah- read closer- you can change what it writes, so it is programmable!

Title: Re: 250 Year Old Robot.
Post by: TAZZIEBAZ on July 09, 2014, 11:58:49 PM

Brilliant!!   
It makes you wonder how anyone could come up with something like that!! But then, there are so many people in the past, who have been, and those who are today, absolutely brilliant! :thumbs