[identity profile] dornbeast.livejournal.com 2006-12-04 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm willing to bet the Greeks had a bunch of these calculator things."

Maybe, maybe not. This might have been the first one of its kind, lost in a storm. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more of these, but I think it's more likely that it was either being taken to a buyer, and that the money from the sale would have financed the second through fourth of these.