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Old 07-14-2007, 12:25 PM   #21608
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Originally Posted by stepurhan View Post
Since you've been missing for a while and have forgotten thread etiquette we'll forgive you this time.
Why don't you try getting a Mac or Linux based machine instead? (Said the man happily sitting in front of an XP PC)

Did you mean "suggest" by the way?

If you ask me, it's still a computer, no matter what it's based upon.

"A computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instructions."

So basically, you can call a loom working hole punch cards a computer.

The Z3 was a computer, even though it's hardly comparable to the ones we know today (not to mention that it was incredibly hard to maintain working. If it got only a little dusty, it would no longer work, due to the fact that it was mechanical (I saw it in the museum in Berlin).



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