Computing device

class of things

A general class of machines for computation.

What it is a kind of

• Babbage’s Difference Engine — includes. A mechanical calculator.
• Babbage’s Analytical Engine — includes. A design for a computing machine.
• Hollerith tabulator — includes. A data-processing machine.
• Computer — includes. A computer is a computing device.
• Abacus — includes. A counting tool.
• Antikythera mechanism — includes. An analogue computing device.
• Mechanical calculator — includes. A calculating machine.
• Slide rule — includes. An analogue calculator.
• Turing’s Bombe — includes. A computing device.
• Printer — includes. Peripherals.
• Astrolabe — includes. An analogue calculator of celestial positions.
• Tide-predicting machine — includes. An analogue calculator.
• Differential analyser — includes. An analogue computer.

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