Labels:book | booth | box | chat room | crt screen | hakham | plant | sky | windowpane OCR: COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE InfoWeb Apri Fools article in the April 1988 issue t0 Scientifi American announced that "archaeolo- qists had discovered the rotting remnants of an ingenious arrangement of ropes and pulleys thought the first working digital computer ever constructed The article described in detai how the people of ar ancient culture known the Apraphulians huilt complex devices of ropes and pullevs housed these devices in huge boxes and used them to peri form complex mathematic al computations 8ome t0 the deviceswere 50 colossal thai ee phants were harnessed to pull the enormous ropes through the pulley sy sterm. corrputer constructed 10 ropes and pulleys? Asyou I might have guessed, this was an April Fools' article Andvet such device if it were constructed could accurateh he called a ...
