Microcomputers

I think using a network of tiny replicating microcomputers is brilliant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the Altair was introduced in the mid-1970s, personal computers - then called microcomputers - were mainly intriguing electronic gadgets for hobbyists, the sort of people who tinkered with ham radio kits. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When the Altair was introduced in the mid-1970s, personal computers - or then called microcomputers - were mainly intriguing electronic gadgets for hobbyists, the sort of people who tinkered with ham radio kits. ❋ By STEVE LOHR (2010)

Insight Enterprises, Inc. specializes in the direct marketing of brand-name microcomputers, peripherals, and software through catalog, phone, and Internet sales. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Four years later, such devices (now known as microcomputers, word processors, etc.) made their debut, as did "hard" discs, and, naturally, no one remembered the mad fellow who had accosted people at the FJCC. ❋ Unknown (1983)

There was a smorgasbord of various "microcomputers" on the market back then, and nobody really knew which one was going to take off, if any. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By the early 1990s, the mass introduction of PCs ( "personal computers", originally called "microcomputers") radically undercut the market for mainframes and minis both. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I was at UT, we had to sign up for time in a "computer lab," and the "microcomputers" in my Pascal class had 8 "floppy disc drives. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We communicate globally with smart digital cell phones that contain powerful microcomputers for text messaging, surfing the internet, receiving online video broadcasts from the media or our friends, and even playing sophisticated games. ❋ Phd Gary E. Schwartz (2011)

But it stored the data on videodiscs on Acorn microcomputers, both of which have long since become obsolete. ❋ Matt Ridley (2011)

I made a historical presentation about the design of the Apollo flight computer, showing its direct lineage to all microcomputers today. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A random selection of patients were provided with microcomputers and encouraged, with help from students, to program them. ❋ Boudreau Freret (2010)

Microcomputer: Modern desktop computers, video game consoles, laptops, tablet [PCs], and many types of handheld devices, including [mobile phones], pocket [calculators], and industrial embedded systems. ❋ BallsDroppingInMyThroat (2017)

[The invention] of the microprocessor allowed for microcomputers, which were much [smaller] than [computers] at the time. ❋ Mattjod (2021)