What is the difference between a computer and a machine?

Answer 1

The Main difference between a computer and a machine that computer is an intelligent device which has the ability to decide by its own through processing different data analysis while machine is least intelligent and is always waiting for user. For Example, a loader or a drill machine can never work without its Operator While Computer is always acting by its own through following instructions, like Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System which is always getting data from the remote sites and shaped it in proper information.

Answer 2

As far as I'm concerned, the word machine is older than the word device, regarding the technology which has to do with automatic and the more advanced, definitely is computer technology. We can say that machine is manually but the electoric device is auto. But that is the basic principle.

Answer 3

1. machine is any thing which reduces human effort while device is used to make machine operations smooth.

2. every machine is a device but every device is not a machine.

Answer 4

a gadget is smaller than a machine