PodTech Weekly: New Computers, Old Technology

December 2nd, 2006 |
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SAN FRANCISCO, December 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — “Clean, flat sheets of bronze.” That’s one way to describe one of your modern PC’s progenitors. Researchers at Hewlett-Packard are in the news this week for the interest they’ve taken in the Antikythera mechanism — arguably the world’s oldest computer. Also in the news this week, supply, demand, eBay, and the war of the gaming consoles. It’s PodTech News.

Photo Credit: NAMA Machine d’Anticythere 1 via Wikipedia Commons and Creative Commons

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