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2. Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia

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   The Antikythera mechanism (/ ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə / AN-tik-ih-THEER-ə, US also / ˌæntaɪkɪˈ -/ AN-ty-kih-) [1][2] is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System). It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer [3][4][5] used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. [6][7][8] It could ...

3. Kronos Incorporated - Wikipedia

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   Revenue. $1.433 billion (2019) [1] Owner. Hellman & Friedman. Number of employees. 6,000 (2019) [2] Website. www.kronos.com. Kronos Incorporated was an American multinational workforce management and human capital management cloud provider headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, which employed more than 6,000 people worldwide.

4. Kronos (computer) - Wikipedia

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   Kronos (computer) Kronos is a series of 32-bit processor equipped printed circuit board systems, [ 1] and the workstations based thereon, [ 1] of a proprietary hardware architecture developed in the mid-1980s in Akademgorodok, a research city in Siberia, by the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, Siberian branch, Novosibirsk Computing ...

5. Stepped reckoner - Wikipedia

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   The stepped reckoner or Leibniz calculator was a mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (started in 1673, when he presented a wooden model to the Royal Society of London [2] and completed in 1694). [1] The name comes from the translation of the German term for its operating mechanism, Staffelwalze ...

6. CDC 6600 - Wikipedia

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   The main marketing reason for its adoption was the development of its TELEX time-sharing feature and its BATCHIO remote batch feature. Kronos continued to use the COS/SCOPE 1 file system with the addition of a permanent file feature. An attempt to unify the SCOPE and Kronos operating system products produced NOS, (Network Operating System). [when?

7. Chronos (character) - Wikipedia

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   Expert thief. Use of high-tech gadgets. Time travel. Chronos is the name of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. These characters take their name from the Greek personification of time and have the ability to time travel. He is the archenemy of the Atom. [1]