But they had really slow connections

It look a century -- and all kinds of next-generation CAT scans. But finally, researchers have unraveled the mystery of the “Antikythera Mechanism.”

It turns out that the ancient Greeks were more clever than we ever dreamed. (And we dreamed they were pretty clever.) The artifact does indeed have the an amazingly precise gear train. And it's used to power what the New Yorker is calling “the world's first computer.”

This is, in fact, an extremely cool thing. The post at Danger Room has links to more.

Link: Danger Room - Wired Blogs