Hence users can access content they have paid for on a different machine by "connecting to the internet and transparently downloading any rights not currently checked out to another machine you might have been using in the past".

BBC: Digital rights and wrongs

Before Macs, I had some random x86 machine that I only used for games and connecting to the Prodigy network.

ENGADGET: Growing up Geek: Philip Berne Alt

The new treatment involves "washing" donor organs by connecting them for several hours to a modified heart and lung bypass machine.

BBC: Re-conditioning lungs for transplant