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I disagree with your disagreement.   LOL.  Seriously, any computer is a gaming machine.  Yes, it's a tool, but a computer is like a Swiss Army knife, it can do all kinds of things; including running games, so it's a gaming machine; among the many other things it is as well. 

It's also an adding machine, a graphics machine, a tv set, a telephone, a recording studio, a type-writer, an "entertainment device," a work tool, an assistant for the blind, etc, etc, you get the point.

So, with all due respect, you're wrong.  A computer is many, many things, one of those things being a gaming machine; it's one of the top 5 most popular uses for any computing device actually.

Whether it's Solitaire or the latest state-of-the-art virtual reality game, a computer is a gaming machine.  That's a basic fact.  You can deny it, but it doesn't change the reality just because you want to call it something different and think of it on only 1 level or something.

----- Now, to be fair, if by "gaming machine" you meant computers that were designed to actually be used for games above all other things (like anything from the Atari 2600 to the Xbox 360 etc) then don't worry, I get your meaning.

I'm just saying that to try to narrow a computer down to be thought of as only one thing, is, to put it mildly, a wee bit short-sighted.   Again, this is with all due respect my friend, I'm not mad or anything, just disagree is all.