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Boffins revisit the Antikythera Mechanism and assert it’s no longer Greek to them

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Re: Not a computer

Wikipedia isn't the sage of all knowledge. A computer these days refers to a programmable machine, not a glorified calculator.

Babbage's Analytical Machine can be referred to as a computer, but this thing is merely a calculator.

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