Analytical chemistry of the recent years is strongly influenced by automation. Data acquisition from analytica instruments - and some- times also controlling of instruments - by a computer are principally solved since many years. Availability of microcomputers made these tasks also feasible from the economic point of view. Besides these basic applications of computers in chemical measurements scientists developed computer programs for solving more sophisticated problems for which some kind of "intelligence" is usually supposed to be necessary. Harm- less numerical experiments on this topic...