So why does the personal computer still have such a lock on our imaginations?
Yet, we continue to treat the personal computer as a kind of magnificent novelty.
The personal computer revolution was delivered by two midpoint boomers, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
Microsoft used to have this kind of clout in the glory days of the personal computer.
The personal computer took America by surprise, and then by storm, in the late 1970s.
That likely meant adopting a more modular approach to development--something the personal computer industry had honed.
Not a bad pair of second acts for the man who helped spark the personal computer revolution.
During that time, our family had front row seats to the incredible evolution of the personal computer.
It was before the web, before the personal computer, before the cell phone, before voicemail and answering machines.
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And some markets may never see the personal computer dominate as it has done in the industrial nations.
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The German government claims that the personal computer of Chancellor Angela Merkel was hacked by the Chinese government.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh.
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The personal computer will not die, but merely be relegated to the background as a niche, mostly commodity, product.
Gates and Jobs both came out of the world of hobbyists and tech enthusiasts who invented the personal computer.
Before Apple and Compaq, Cook spent several years working in the personal computer division at IBM (NYSE: IBM).
Recent Cisco efforts in home networking could make the personal computer little more than a dumb terminal, undercutting Microsoft.
And minicomputer vendors like Digital in turn dismissed the personal computer revolution spearheaded by Dell, Compaq and Hewlett Packard.
Gates' own source of lucre, the personal computer industry, worked that way, too.
In India, the personal computer (PC) base is limited to about 4 million.
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Suddenly, the personal computer industry may have a big problem: Steve Jobs.
The large, complex and expensive mainframes of the 1950s and 1960s gave way to the personal computer in the 1980s.
Companies that make machines to sequence DNA like to compare themselves to the personal computer industry in its early days.
After all, they have already experienced for a few years the freedom and absolute control provided by the personal computer.
They would rather rely on a general-purpose and, from a copyright holder's point of view, highly untrustworthy device: the personal computer.
Price is arguably the reason Apple missed out on much of the joy in the first round of the personal computer market.
The classic example of this occurring happened in the personal computer industry.
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And again, none of them holds out the prospect of domination in the way that the operating system dominates the personal computer.
Mobile devices are really becoming the personal computer of the current generation.
Google unveiled a new and improved approach to the personal computer Tuesday.
This software colossus's domination of the personal computer's operating-system market is complete.
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