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A documentary, The World's First Computer, was produced in 2012 by the Antikythera mechanism researcher and film-maker Tony Freeth. [101] In 2012, BBC Four aired The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer; [102] it was also aired on 3 April 2013 in the United States on NOVA, the PBS science series, under the name Ancient Computer. [103]
Originally thought to be one of the first forms of a mechanised clock or an astrolabe, it is at times referred to as the world’s oldest known analog computer. [5] The wreck remained untouched until 1953, when French naval officer and explorer Jacques Cousteau briefly visited to relocate the site. [6]
The 1945 creation of the first programmable computer, ENIAC, is a good guess. Or maybe we stretch it back to Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s work on the analog Analytical Engine in the 1830s.
In 2013, for the second time, the Guinness Book of World Records recognised it as the world's oldest working digital computer, following its restoration. It previously held the title for several years until it was decommissioned in 1973. [5] The museum uses the computer's visual, dekatron-based memory to teach schoolchildren about computers. [4]
First built in 1972, a small number shipped in early 1973. [22] [23] Micral N: Intel 8008 [24] 1973: Awarded the title of "the first personal computer using a microprocessor" by a panel at the Computer History Museum in 1986. [25] Seiko 7000 Intel 8080: 1974 Another desktop calculator usable as a computer when connected to a teletype.
CSIR Mk I (later known as CSIRAC), Australia's first computer, ran its first test program. It was a vacuum-tube-based electronic general-purpose computer. Its main memory stored data as a series of acoustic pulses in 5 ft (1.5 m) long tubes filled with mercury. 1949 United Kingdom
The Mark II is also known for being the computer with the first recorded instance of an actual bug (a moth) disrupting its operation. The insect was extracted from the machine's electronics and taped to the log book, with the note "first actual case of [a] bug being found", on September 9, 1947. [10] [11]
Archaeologists uncovered a 480-year-old gun in Arizona. It’s now considered the oldest firearm ever found within the continental United States.