microcomputer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of microcomputer
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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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