Who said anything about transistors, I was talking about these fucking beauties: (pic 1)
This is what the inside of a 1940's computer looked like: (pic 2)
The definition of a computer starts with colossus, it was Turing complete, it was programmable, it could solve any equation that would fit within it's memory. There is no other point more significant which you could define as being hte first computer, it is genesis. There is no definition of computer that it does not meet, just because you can't play quake on it, doesn't change that. Get with the program, you cannot out nerd me, You pocket calculator by the way is less powerful than the Difference Engine... it's only asset is size.
Go read about Turing Machines, and you will see that both collosus and your PC and just pittiful attempts at approximating such a device. in the grand scale of it, they are the same, on a scale to infinity, one and one million are barely distinguishable.
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