The Abacus
August 28th, 2009 by admin
The Abacus is one of mankind’s oldest machines, and certainly man’s earliest computer.
An abacus is a bead and wire analog counting and calculating device whose earliest form appeared about 3000 BC in Mesopotamia as a sand covered board in which marks were made by finger or stick.
The Abacus was really nothing more [...]
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