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microcomputer

[mahy-kroh-kuhm-pyoo-ter] / ˈmaɪ kroʊ kəmˌpyu tər /




NOUN
laptop computer
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Mr. Gates’s friend Paul Allen just happened to see a cover article in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, titled “World’s First Microcomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models.”

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2011

Earlier this year, Hayes Microcomputer, the largest supplier of computer modems, won $11 million in damages from three Silicon Valley firms that copied Hayes' software for sending and receiving data.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last April, for example, Microcomputer Systems Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif, won a preliminary $2 million judgment against two former employees who had started a rival firm.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Great Britain, `fred', `jim' and `sheila' are common metasyntactic variables because their uppercase versions were official names given to the 3 memory areas that held I/O status registers on the lovingly-remembered BBC Microcomputer!

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

We are continually improving and updating our TRS-80 Microcomputer System.

From Radio Shack TRS-80 Expansion Interface: Operator's Manual Catalog Numbers: 26-1140, 26-1141, 26-1142 by Anonymous




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