From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Feb 6 10:50:07 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l16Fo73E006964 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:50:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (coldfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.89]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l16Fnsil081006 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:49:54 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 17574 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 15:49:53 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 15:49:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 19208 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 15:49:51 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 15:49:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 19425 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 15:49:50 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 15:49:50 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3176808 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:49:50 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 9862 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 15:49:49 -0000 Received: from mailscan7.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.158) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 15:49:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 3528 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2007 15:49:49 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 6 Feb 2007 15:49:49 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l16Fnm2n006923 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:49:48 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l16FnmWn006922 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:49:48 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200702061549.l16FnmWn006922@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:49:48 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: COMPUTER HISTORY To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2527/Tue Feb 6 05:14:46 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 507 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: COMPUTER HISTORY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've added two articles on what may be the world's oldest special-purpose "computer", the Antikythera Mechanism, built in the 2nd century BC, and found a hundred years ago, but only recently "deciphered". Go to the What Is a Computer?/History webpage at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/584/S07/whatisacomputer.html#antikythera