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Small desktop or portable computer, typically designed to be used by one person at a time, although individual computers can be linked in a network so that users can share data and programs.
Its central processing unit is a microprocessor, contained on a single integrated circuit.
Microcomputers are the smallest of the four classes of computer (the others are supercomputer, mainframe, and minicomputer). Since the appearance in 1975 of the first commercially available microcomputer, the Altair 8800, micros have become ubiquitous in commerce, industry, and education.
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analogue-to-digital converter
arithmetic and logic unit
binary number system
central processing unit
computer
control unit
digital (computing)
digital computer
digital-to-analogue converter
dumb terminal
FireWire
firmware
hardware
IDE
immediate access memory
intelligent terminal
laptop computer
mainframe
memory (computing)
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microprocessor
palmtop computer
parallel device
peripheral device
personal computer
personal digital assistant
register (computing)
SCSI
serial device
terminal
thin client
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USB
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