2000 year old computer re-created

[Demon-Xanth]

Sweet.

 

[swbsam]

Can it play Crysis?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: swbsam
Can it play Crysis?

Gotta OC it first

 

[nonameo]

Originally posted by: swbsam
Can it play Crysis?

.0000000000000001 fps.

 

[Tim]

If I put two of them together, is it a dual-core, or SLI?

 

[Eli]

Can they really call that a computer?

What is the definition of a "computer"? Anything that computes something?

Is a (mechanical) clock a "computer"? lol

 

[ViviTheMage]

it's more of a mechanical clock ...

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Eli
Can they really call that a computer?

What is the definition of a "computer"? Anything that computes something?

Is a (mechanical) clock a "computer"? lol

By that definition, an abacus is a computer.
It's certainly not a "modern" computer. If it could be programmed and perform calculations on its own, that would certainly be amazing.

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: Eli
Can they really call that a computer?

What is the definition of a "computer"? Anything that computes something?

Is a (mechanical) clock a "computer"? lol

Yes. The word was originally coined to describepeople who computed things.

 

[Crono]

"The fundamental difference between calculators and computers is that computers can be programmed to perform different tasks while calculators are pre-designed with specific functions built in, for example addition, multiplication, logarithms, etc." - Wikipedia

So this is really just a really old school calculator?

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: Crono
"The fundamental difference between calculators and computers is that computers can be programmed to perform different tasks while calculators are pre-designed with specific functions built in, for example addition, multiplication, logarithms, etc." - Wikipedia

So this is really just a really old school calculator?

^^ That is a terrible piece of opinion there in wikipedia.

Calculators can be programmed, as all modern calculators use microprocessors and memory for their incredibly basic input/output interfaces. It's just that they are function-built, and cannot be easily modified to perform other functions.

 

[JTsyo]

Saw someone that had made a mechanical calculator in Little Big Planet on Youtube. Can't access it at work.

 

[Net]

yeah but how fast can it boot up?