text: who had invented computer & when ?   did anyone see that documentary about an artifact that was found in the eastern mediteranean?  it was totally encrusted, but under xray you could see there was some kind of device inside with very intricuit clock-like counting mechanisms.  they proposed that it might have been some sort of counting or computing device.  i believe it was dated to b.c. ...i just found this.  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  ancient artifacts discovered imbedded in solid rock, as well as artifacts found on the ocean floor, give evidence to the fact that our ancient ancestors were far more intelligent in the scientific realm than we give them credit for. yves naud describes in his book, one such artifact: "in 1900, sponge divers near antikythera (greece), found rusty fragments of a metallic apparatus on the sea floor. scientists at first thought that they were remnants of an astrolabe dating from 65 b.c. in 1959, the english scientist, solla price, made a discovery which astounded the professional world when he published it in the natural history review of march 1962:   "'it appears that this object is really a computer which can determine and describe the movements of the sun, of the moon, and probably of the planets.'   "this modern expert felt extremely humble and could only pay homage to the high science of our ancestors, although the homage was tinged with fear.   "'it is quite frightening,' he wrote in scientific american (june, 1959), 'to learn that, shortly before their great civilization crumbled, the ancient greeks had come as close as this to our time, not only in terms of their thinking, but also in their scientific technology.'"