You can't make the plays without the basic PC products...

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So, with no experience or training as a programmer, he taught himself BASIC and wrote PC-Talk, which was the first (and for a long time the best) communications program for the PC.

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The entire dark chassis may seem basic and highly minimalistic, but there are small intricacies like the chrome borders, hidden port covers, and wave-shaped hinges that just make this thing feel more like a computing piece of art than a basic bargain-basement PC.

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Much like the PC market, basic and feature mobile phone volumes are falling as consumers migrate not only to smartphones, but smartphones at low- and mid-tier price points.

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Buzzword is a flash-based application which - as it lives on the web - does not require any download onto your PC, apart from the basic Flash player that is.

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