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| Thread ID: 29423 | 2003-01-19 09:51:00 | Is a computer a machine? | seacrest (2893) | Press F1 |
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| 115278 | 2003-01-19 09:51:00 | I often people call computers machines Are they? Ps I know its a weird question but i would like to know |
seacrest (2893) | ||
| 115279 | 2003-01-19 09:59:00 | hear | seacrest (2893) | ||
| 115280 | 2003-01-19 10:01:00 | My better half has gone as far as naming the two computers in my office. One is called Sally and the other Suzie................... I give up. |
duckyduck (197) | ||
| 115281 | 2003-01-19 10:23:00 | Computers are machines. Just look at IBM. International Business Machines. | Kame (312) | ||
| 115282 | 2003-01-19 10:27:00 | Usually call it a computer or comp. Also certain parts being the rig, magic box, box. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 115283 | 2003-01-19 10:38:00 | It's got a name (Rosie), a mind of its own and a very black soul...... it's not a machine any more | porpora (3036) | ||
| 115284 | 2003-01-19 10:44:00 | Machine (n) : A device consisting of fixed and moving parts that modifies mechanical energy and transmits it in a more useful form. Im sure you can answer that yourself now :) |
DistantCube (3037) | ||
| 115285 | 2003-01-19 21:45:00 | Answer depends on how you define "machine". In about 1934 Alan Turing gave a definition of the most general or universal machine. As far as I know his definition hasn't been seriously disputed since. Turing tried to design a computer according to his definition of "machine". Modern computers are an approximation to his definition. (eg his definition required the universal machine to among other things have an infinite memory, I don't know if he would think my current 512MB of DDR was close to this or hopelessly inadequate - he died in 1952, I suspect his thoughts would have been more on the side of inadequate.) |
rugila (214) | ||
| 115286 | 2003-01-20 00:48:00 | When I'm in a good mood I call them machines. When I am not in a good mood I call them all sorts of things. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 115287 | 2003-01-20 01:28:00 | Sure it is. It's a data processing machine. | mark c (247) | ||
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