Yup. I explain old automatic transmissions as Hydraulic Computers.
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blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 3 months agoTechnically it's a computer because it can compute something, it's just not a universal computer.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Right, so you consider calculators to be computers too? And I don’t mean the beefy scientific calculators, just simple ones with basic operations.
oatscoop@midwest.social 3 months ago
“Computer” is literally anything that performs computations – it even used to be a job title: “one that computes”.
“Mechanical Computers” were almost exclusively limited in what they could compute.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Yes.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Porn?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
Can it go up to 80085?
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 months ago
unzip
mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, most computers should also be able to run WinRAR.