Question: Are Processor Technology and Matra Alice both computers?

In computer science, a digital electronic computer is a computer machine which is both an electronic computer and a digital computer.  Examples of a digital electronic computers include the IBM PC, the Apple Macintosh as well as modern smartphones.  When computers that were both digital and electronic appeared, they displaced almost all other kinds of computers, but computation has historically been performed in various non-digital and non-electronic ways: the Lehmer sieve is an example of a digital non-electronic computer, while analog computers are examples of non-digital computers which can be electronic (with analog electronics), and mechanical computers are examples of non-electronic computers (which may be digital or not).  An example of a computer which is both non-digital and non-electronic is the ancient Antikythera mechanism found in Greece.  All kinds of computers, whether they are digital or analog, and electronic or non-electronic, can be Turing complete if they have sufficient memory.  A digital electronic computer is not necessarily a programmable computer, a stored program computer, or a general purpose computer, since in essence a digital electronic computer can be built for one specific application and be non-reprogrammable.  As of 2014, most personal computers and smartphones in people's homes that use multicore central processing units (such as AMD FX, Intel Core i7, or the multicore varieties of ARM-based chips) are also parallel computers using the MIMD (multiple instructions - multiple data) paradigm, a technology previously only used in digital electronic supercomputers.  As of 2014, most digital electronic supercomputers are also cluster computers, a technology that can be used at home in the form of small Beowulf clusters. Parallel computation is also possible with non-digital or non-electronic computers.  An example of a parallel computation system using the abacus would be a group of human computers using a number of abacus machines for computation and communicating using natural language. <SEP> The Endo Club Nord was founded in 1991 as a practice-oriented forum for gastroenterological endoscopy by Nib Soehendra (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf), Dietmar Wurbs (Asklepios Clinic Barmbek) and Friedrich Hagenmüller (Asklepios Clinic Altona), who were its presidents until 1998.  Today the two-day forum for doctors, nursing staff and students is the world’s largest congress with live endoscopy with over 2,500 participants yearly.  At the heart of the event, which takes place every year in November in the Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), are – besides the fields of endoscopic diagnosis and therapy – a number of HDTV live broadcasts from the three participating hospitals, in which leading gastroenterologists from all over the world demonstrate both proven and innovative endoscopic procedures with the latest endoscopy and processor technology and discuss them in dialogue with the congress moderators. <SEP> The Matra & Hachette Ordinateur Alice was a home computer sold in France beginning in 1983.  It was a clone of the TRS-80 MC-10, produced through a collaboration between Matra and Hachette in France and Tandy Corporation in the United States. <SEP>  Their first product was a 4K byte RAM board that was compatible with the MITS Altair 8800 computer but more reliable than the MITS board.  This was followed by a series of memory and I/O boards including a video display module.  Popular Electronics magazine wanted a feature article on an intelligent computer terminal and Technical Editor Les Solomon asked Marsh and Lee Felsenstein to design one.  It was featured on the July 1976 cover and became the Sol-20 Personal Computer.  The first units were shipped in December 1976 and the Sol-20 was a very successful product. Processor Technology Corporation was a personal computer company founded in April 1975 by Gary Ingram and Bob Marsh in Berkeley, California.  The company failed to develop next generation products and ceased operations in May 1979.