Tony Duell wrote:
Personally, I still want a computer that will
paint my house and
repair the fence in the backyard.
IIRC, the original definiton of 'computer' was a person who operates a
computing machine. In which case finding one that can paint your house
shouldn't be too hard.
To put a finer point on it, I expect the original definition would have been
someone who did the computation, then became someone who operated an adding
machine or calculator, then the modern/current definition.