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Computatrum

setting the input parameters
A Colossus Mark 2 computer being operated by Dorothy Du Boisson (left) and Elsie Booker (right), 1943
Man replacing one vacuum tube out of hundreds in early computer
Black desktop computer with monitor on top and keyboard in front
Purple video game console with attached controller
Smartphone with AMOLED dislay
Rows of large, dark computer cabinets in warehouse-like room
Computatra et apparatus computandi ex variis aetatibus. ¶ Summus ordo: Automatica machina calculatoria (1820) (machina differentiarum) et computatrum aetatis primae (computatrum colossus) ¶ Ordo medius: primum tuborum inanium computatrum (ENIAC) et supercomputatrum (IBM Summit) ¶ Ordo imus: monitor (IBM ThinkCentre S50) cartibulum visificum lusorium (Nintendo GameCube) et Smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S5).

Computatrum,[1] sive (instrumentum) computatorium,[1] sive ordinatrum,[2][1] est machina digitalis et electronica quod programmari potest ut sequentias arithmeticas vel logicas (computationes) automatarie faciat. Computatra hodierna genericas operationum copias exsequi possunt, quae programmata appellantur, propter quae computatra varia pensa efficere possunt. Omnis apparatus computatralis est congeries elementorum quae computatrum formant; quae plerumque sunt memoria interna, systema internum (corpus programmatum), et peripherica, arma ad computatrum plene et recte operandum necessaria. Hoc vocabulum etiam ad copiam computatrum quae coniunguntur ut una operentur, sicut reticulum computatrale et fasciculus computatrorum.

Genus computatrorum quod quocumque facile portari potest computatrum gestabile nuncupatur.

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ebbe Vilborg, Norstedts svensk-latinska ordbok, editio secunda (2009).
  2. John C. Traumpan, Latin and English Dictionary, ed. tertia (Novi Eboraci: Bantam Books, 2007), 499, s.v. ordinatrum.

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