personal computer
Example Sentences
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The idea of artificial intelligence, let alone a personal computer, was a fantasy at best.
From Salon
The “personal computers” of the day were hobbyists’ kits, contraptions that arrived in pieces, with output displays that were limited to blinking red lights.
From Los Angeles Times
When personal computers started arriving in offices in the 1980s, college-educated employees such as financial analysts, scientists and consultants were able to do more at work.
The explosion in value I enjoyed can be owed to something that happened in the U.S. around 1980: Americans invented the personal computer industry.
From Barron's
Early successes in helping define and popularize the personal computer were followed by a troubled adolescence that almost proved fatal.
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