Comments on: Meet the Antikythera Mechanism

By: Kirby

Kirby — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:13:07 +0000

I wanna know if there’s a vibrator attachment. Will Jobs make an iMechanism version for comsumers? I’ll be it runs the java VM well. [insert your own dumb tech joke here].

And yes, it ran Linux.

By: adi

adi — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:24:28 +0000

Screw Linux, the real question is, “Does it play Doom?”

By: JP

JP — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 04:09:53 +0000

Did it run Linux?

By: drdrew

drdrew — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 03:08:39 +0000

Old news [pun intended ;)]. This thing is just plain cool, period, I want one, seriously. Mechanical (non electric) devices are fun; not to mention a great conversation piece and can be a fun challenge if it’s “assembly required”. Discovery airs a segment on this every once in a while, so keep an eye for it. Here we are so much more ‘technologically advanced’ than at that time, yet I bet that thing never crashed…hmmm…

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:46:37 +0000

Speaking as a fanboy, a box with a bunch of gears is not much fun to play with unless it was an Xbox360 with Gears of War ;)

By: endless-t

endless-t — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:33:18 +0000

And so if it hadn’t been lost at sea, we’d be looking at the PlayStation Millennium Edition?

By: webonics

webonics — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:44:23 +0000

The really question is…Did the Greeks ever offer the Antikythera 2.0 in pink??

Cool article. I read about this about a year ago and if you consider the time of its origin, it was an advancement for civilization by light years.