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They found that cool Greek analouge sort of computer in the Mediterranean from bc era.
This article I think is full of shit by the way and this is not cool at all for use as a computer, you think the computers in the 60s were big.
Anyway I think this is the Greek thing.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
I know about that one. And yes, it was more advanced than the technology of the age seemed suggest.