Timeline for Could computing be developed in a pre-refining society?
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| Sep 13, 2021 at 18:14 | comment | added | neph | Accepting this answer as it seems by far the most practical-to-implement & effective-in-practice of the possibilities. | |
| Sep 13, 2021 at 18:13 | vote | accept | neph | ||
| Sep 13, 2021 at 3:12 | comment | added | Logan R. Kearsley | @Donald.McLean Military cryptography. | |
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| Oct 8, 2014 at 14:51 | comment | added | Donald.McLean | The science fiction novel Souls In The Great Machine by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_McMullen contains a human powered computer. I forget what it was used for though. | |
| Oct 7, 2014 at 18:05 | comment | added | Chris McCall | I imagine a city filled with scribes and clicking abacuses. Trained crows bring instructions and results from tower to tower, acting as network packets. People crowd around the gates, bringing questions and receiving their answers after days' time. Very cool visual, good answer. | |
| Oct 6, 2014 at 0:01 | comment | added | Kromey | Man, this answer reminds me how badly I need to learn how to use my abacuses, I can barely add 1 and 1 on them! :P The "human parallel computing" angle is brilliant though, excellent outside-the-box thinking! | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 23:47 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | @kikjezrous thank you! That's the nice thing about having answers from a large pool of people. There are so many perspectives... | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 22:40 | comment | added | neph | Very interesting answer which approached the question from a totally different angle than I expected. Thank you! | |
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| Oct 4, 2014 at 17:20 | history | answered | trichoplax is on Codidact now | CC BY-SA 3.0 |