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    In October 1900 a small boat and it's group of sponge-divers was driven by a storm to shelter near a small Greek island. Rather than twiddle their thumbs they dived where they lay at anchor...what they discovered was the wreck of a large over-laden Roman ship and it's plunder of bronze and marble statues together with a lump of crud that contained a mechanism of bronze toothed-wheels. Much guesswork ensued over the years until recently when new techniques were used to uncover the inner truth.
    A programme on BBC4 last night (which I missed) I have just watched on the BBC iPlayer tells the story and it is well worth the hour...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01hlkcq/The_TwoThousandYearOld_Computer/

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