• What do you call a computer?
• Technically Speaking

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        Before we can even start getting into the technical stuff, what you might call a computer may be different from what other people may call a computer.
        Now in general, you might say what you're looking at now is a computer. Is it? Yes, it is. But would you also call an abacus a computer? Well then, some people would, some people wouldn't. So that's why we have to get things straight.
        In this tutorial, however, we will start with the 1600s, when mechanical computers were the big thing in those days. Or, in other words, speaking technically, mechanical calculating machines. Some people think there's a difference, some don't. But if you want, tell me what you call a computer which I will list in my statistics board. Well, what do you call a computer?

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Technically Speaking

       If you want to get technical with what a computer really is, speaking in terms of the type that you're using right now to view this site, then let's get technical. So what's a computer? A computer is one that computes numerical differences between input and incorporates it into functions that complete other tasks, as the output.