> A better definition of a computer would include not just the words “designed for calculation” but also “programmable.” That would be a "programmable computer

> A better definition of a computer would include not just the words “designed for calculation” but also “programmable.” That would be a "programmable computer", or a "stored-program computer". The earliest digital computers[0] couldn't store a program; you had to re-wire them. Wikipedia says that ENIAC was "programmable", but programming it was a matter of jump-cables and plugboards, which I call re-wiring. In its earliest version, it had no main memory, just a set of registers/accumulators. You could use card-decks for persistent storage, but you couldmn't load a program from a card-deck, they were just for data. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC