1) By that definition, a test tube is a computer. It is optical, because sometimes the results of an experiment are verified visually. It is a data processing device, because mixing chemicals to find out what happens is a form of processing data. And it performs storage functions because you can store liquids or other substances in it if, for instance, the reaction is expected to take a long time. The "or's" in the definition mean that it doesn't have to satisfy all of the criteria, only some of them.
You could argue that it's not high speed, but the wording of the definition is ambiguous enough that that isn't necessarily a requirement.
Though I'm guessing you were going for hyperbole here, you're mostly correct.
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1) By that definition, a test tube is a computer. It is optical, because sometimes the results of an experiment are verified visually. It is a data processing device, because mixing chemicals to find out what happens is a form of processing data. And it performs storage functions because you can store liquids or other substances in it if, for instance, the reaction is expected to take a long time. The "or's" in the definition mean that it doesn't have to satisfy all of the criteria, only some of them.
You could argue that it's not high speed, but the wording of the definition is ambiguous enough that that isn't necessarily a requirement.
Though I'm guessing you were going for hyperbole here, you're mostly correct.