What Is The Quipu?
The Quipu is a system of knotted cords used, by the Incas and its preceding societies in the Andean region, to store massive amounts of information important to their culture and civilization. In the absence of written records the quipus served as a means of recording history and passed on to the next generation, which used them as reminders of stories. A thus these primitive computers - quipus - had knotted in their memory banks the information which tied together the Inca Empire.