[logi_cal869]

Understood, but definitions are malleable.

See "vaccine".

So, we'll just have to agree to disagree, absent a category in between. But I'll concede the device's absence of 'input' to affect its output.

But as I typed, you've now gone full retard with your pretentiousness:

"I suppose a magazine is a clip to you as well. Consider yourself having been educated."

Thus, I maintain that you're in error, if for no other reason that your description in your other comment,

"That thing is more like a circular slide rule or a mechanical artillery computer, not a programmable instrument.

You also wrote, "The Babbage Machine is "Turing Complete".

The Babbage Machine predated Alan Touring & Collossus, DA, so Collosus wasn't a 'computer'? Which is it? I digress.

Others have cited that it is a computer, but NO ONE in this forum has claimed it to be a digital computer.

Since you are keen to definitions, your slide rule citation outlines the fallacy here:

An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computer that uses the continuous variation aspect of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities (analog signals) to model the problem being solved. In contrast, digital computers represent varying quantities symbolically and by discrete values of both time and amplitude (digital signals).

Analog computers can have a very wide range of complexity. Slide rules and nomograms are the simplest, while naval gunfire control computers and large hybrid digital/analog computers were among the most complicated. Systems for process control and protective relays used analog computation to perform control and protective functions.

History of Computing

For the record:

THE BABBAGE ENGINE

Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed. Difference Engine No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long.

Wear your sphincter hat a bit looser and perhaps you'll see the light through that brown fog.

I doubt that you have half the mental capacity of Babbage, let alone the 100th century BC designer of the Antikythera Mechanism.

Back atcha, pretentious JA.

[GingisK]

It makes no difference if the Babbage Engine came before Turing since the Babbage Engine does satisfy the meaning of "Turing Complete", even if that was not a term used back then. The Babbage engine was PROGRAMMABLE, therefore it could be re-tasked. The Antikythera Mechanism could not be re-tasked either. This is necessary and sufficient for my premise.

I am also sure I do not compare well when stacked up against those two inventors.