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Makes me wonder how what the definition of a computer is. There were calculation machines before so what makes this a computer? Is it because it's programmable?
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Makes me wonder how what the definition of a computer is. There were calculation machines before so what makes this a computer? Is it because it's programmable?
- Gibbon1 8y agoI think in this case they mean stored program computer. But you're right the definition is somewhat fungible. Even more so when you consider analog computers. Two analog computers of note are Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at Ames in Palo Alto and the San Francisco Bay Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_Plan_Wind_Tunnel_(Mountain_View,_California) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_Plan_Wind_Tunnel_(Moun... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_Bay_Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_B...