[JohnZ]

The computer an "infernal machine"? Hmmm, I'm thinking about that. Long ago, I was corrected ad nauseam by an onery chemistry professor that believed that machines do work through applied force and that instruments measure.....also fish have scales and only balances are used in the laboratory.

Is a computer a machine? Is it an instrument? Or is it simply a fundemental all purpose device? Computers are now used as communication "devices"....not the initial intended purpose of performing repetitive calculations. So then, computers have morphed (is that a word) into a contrivance.

Get me away from this infernal contrivance and enough of my blather. BTW, I've been told that I sound too intellectual.....sooooo I'm going to rip the bow-tie from Jerry and try to be more "hip" like his "Nutty Professor" alter ego in future posts. Might be fun.