What if the next big technology was actually a pretty old technology? The first computers ever built were analog, and a ...

Researchers from New Zealand have restored the very first recording ever made of computer generated music. The three simple melodies, laid down in 1951, were generated by a machine built by the ...

In 1901 a device called the Antikythera Mechanism was found in a shipwreck, and after extensive study, it was determined that it was an analog computer that was at least 2000 years old. This is a ...

Later named the Antikythera mechanism after the island off which it was found, this remarkable bronze construction over 2,000 years old turned out to be the world’s first analog computer ...

We might not think of analog computers as having existed in the 1500s, but in fact the astrolabe first appeared around 220 BC. However, as you might expect only a few very old ones still exist ...

This analog computer can multiply, divide, square numbers, and find square roots. It has a maximum result of ten billion with an average precision of 2-3%. [Miroslav’s] build recreates someth… ...

Meet George, a 1958 one-of-a-kind analog computer. It arrived at the Vintage Computing Festival East just in time for our first (2015). Ron Amadeo A closeup of the vacuum tubes.

A computer scientist and a composer have restored an ancient recording of the first ever computer-generated music.

Yesterday, at a University of Reading demonstration in London, a computer convinced human judges that it was actually a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy, becoming the first computer ever to ...

Archaeology & History A New Study Shakes Up Our Understanding of the World’s First Analog Computer Researchers have uncovered surprising insights into the Antikythera mechanism.