Stonehenge

The Mother of All Computers
The World’s First (and Largest) Analog Computer during the 
First Computer Revolution

Power Source: Nuclear fusion reactor (sun) located at center of solar system. This power source also provides visible spectrum radiation for viewing the display, as well as gravity for moving the hardware.
Display: A Heel Stone as viewed from under a large trilithon stone.
Memory Device: Thirty 20-foot high, 25-ton stones in a circle, plus five 45-ton trilithon stones. (Add-on: outer circle of holes for solar and lunar eclipse prediction.)
Memory: 240 bytes, Pro version: 360 bytes.
Hardware: An 8,000-mile diameter, spinning, tilted sphere weighing 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons and going round the central power supply at the rate of once per year.

Gerald Hawkins, author of Stonehenge Decoded, calls Stonehenge a “neolithic computer.” Perhaps Stonehenge was the world’s first and largest computer. (Analog, not digital.) The trend is always toward miniaturization of computer parts. Based on this trend, we would expect the first computer to be the largest.

Stonehenge was probably a primitive calendar. By placing large stones in a certain position, it was able to store information about the date of the mid-summer solstice. Then, every year, it would automatically retrieve this information at the appropriate time. The programming involved exactly where to place the stones, which was probably done, at least initially, by observing the horizon. The hard drive was the spinning earth. The software was the large stone circle that had to be placed properly on the hard drive (Earth). The display (monitor) ingeniously used both the software and hardware as well as the heel stone.