Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China ...

We technology enthusiasts are usually on the bleeding edge, but sometimes we make exceptions. Sometimes, they just don't make them like they used to. Other times, there's no point in replacing ...

Alright that thing looks like a crapload of old wires and tubes, but it could turn into the world’s oldest working stored program computer if England’s National Museum of Computing in Bletchley can ...

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient instrument generally considered the world's first analog computer. Now, new research conducted on a piece of the device, called the Saros dial, dates this ...

Before Colossus, ENIAC, and even the difference engine, there was the “Antikythera Mechanism”—a mysterious device that some researchers now say may be the world’s oldest computer. The mechanism, which ...