It helped popularize at-home computing and led to the computer revolution.

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That is why Hewlett Packard and Dell have made acquisitions to take them into the business of providing turnkey services or cloud computing where they maintain your computer functions in another location and manage your data far more efficiently than you can do it for yourself.

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Hewlett Packard ( HPQ - news - people ) and Dell have made acquisitions to take them into the business of providing turnkey services or cloud computing where they maintain your computer functions in another location and manage your data far more efficiently than you can do it for yourself.

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