personal computer
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personal computer (PC) A microcomputer suitable for a single user, with a localized hard storage disk and a
microprocessor. Although microcomputers have limited abilities compared with the larger
mainframes, they are sufficiently powerful to meet the needs of many small businesses; their uses include producing accounts and payrolls, invoicing, wordprocessing, and compiling mailing lists. More powerful systems can be obtained by linking several small computers by a
local area network. See also
laptop computer;
palmtop computer.
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IBM announces more cost-effective versions of personal computers.
PR Newswire; 6/7/1984; 700+ words
; ...Systems Division. "The personal computer marketplace is one of...the entire IBM Personal Computer product line." The new...Authorized IBM Personal Computer Dealers nationwide. IBM PERSONAL COMPUTERS IBM Product Center Prices...
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Personal computers change everything, says Personal Computing Magazine in special October issue. (includes list of fields changed by computing)
PR Newswire; 9/21/1989; 700+ words
; PERSONAL COMPUTERS CHANGE EVERYTHING...world's largest computer monthlies, with...Communications: Personal computers are becoming our...articles on how computers have changed our...commentary from computer industry leaders...
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IBM Cuts Prices on Many Personal Computers
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 7/22/1992; 700+ words
; ...many of its personal computers by up to...phase in the computer giant's...increasing personal computer revenues...95 desktop personal computers, as well...selling a computer through the...personal computers to the specifications...
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The diffusion of personal computers across the U.S.
Newspaper article from: FRBSF Economic Letter; 12/23/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the diffusion of the personal computer across U.S. businesses...some areas adopted computers ninth more intensively...Bay Area is the most computer-intensive. More...country. The focus on personal computers makes sense for several...Area was the most computer-intensive area ...
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A PC in every pad. (personal computers) (Buyers' Guide to PCs) (Industry Overview)
Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network; 1/2/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...short time as the personal computer. [CHART OMITTED] Just 15 years ago, home computers were primarily the...have a market where computers are affordable, you...more consumers buying personal computers for home use." MULTIMEDIA...While the personal computer marketplace ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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The homeless PC. (personal computers) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 10/17/1992; 700+ words
; ...two good reasons. Personal, but not personable...may indeed be the computer age. But the average...does not understand computers, and using a PC requires...market, an entire computer will come on a single...machines of old, personal computers will be confined to...needed to win over ...
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 "Talk of the Nation (NPR)")
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Analysis: Twentieth anniversary of personal computers
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR); 8/13/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Twentieth anniversary of personal computers Host: STEVE INSKEEP...its first personal computer. Now IBM's model...millions of personal computers sit on desks and laps...there were sort of personal computers around...to build a personal computer that we ...
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Personal Computers Reach 20th Anniversary.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 8/12/2001; 700+ words
; ...Intel Corp., the personal computer celebrates its 20th...the first personal computers. Although Intel touts...said he used an Apple computer to write his doctoral...Rasher said he sees the computer traveling in a similar...than one PC, and personal digital assistants...enable ...
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IBM UNVEILS NEW PERSONAL COMPUTERS UNITS DESIGNED TO THWART ITS LOW-COST IMMITATORS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/3/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...generation of personal computers designed to thwart...Nor did the computer giant make it...microchip in a personal computer. IBM has also...will make the computers run faster and...written for the new Personal Systems/2 line...of the four new computers is a the new ...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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`SILLY' PERSONAL COMPUTERS ON WAY OUT, MICROSOFT RIVAL SAYS.(BUSINESS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 12/26/1996; 700+ words
; ...I don't think the personal computer will be the center of gravity for the computer industry in five years...television. But the personal computer on the World Wide Web...engineering device. Early computers -- and the PC is an early...
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Personal Computers
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
PERSONAL COMPUTERS Personal computers (PC) were developed during the...home. No established industrial computer company, like IBM, Burroughs...began their own PC company, Apple Computers, in 1976, building a microchip...
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Personal Computer (PC), Introduction of the
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce
...IBM continued developing computer technology throughout the...Co. developed its first computer, the HP 2116A. Gordon Moore...would become another major computer technology innovator, in...development of the first personal computers resulted from the convergence...
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Inventing the Personal Computer
Book article from: American Decades
INVENTING THE PERSONAL COMPUTER Computer Lib Despite the pin-striped reputation personal computers acquired from their rapid expansion into...manifesto was Theodore Nelson's 1974 book, Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Nelson believed personal...
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personal computer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
personal computer (PC), small but powerful computer primarily used in an...connected to a larger computer. PCs evolved after...possible the hobby-computer movement of the late 1970s, when some computers were built from components...
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Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association A successful standardization effort initiated by a number of MODEM manufacturers during the...
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