The Great Personal Computer Bust of 1983 and three subsequent years of misery had taken quite a toll on Noyce, Intel and most of Silicon Valley.
With The Bends and OK Computer entrenched among the great albums of recent years, history seems unsure what to make of Radiohead's subsequent work.
It would be another bit of sweet vindication for Xerox PARC, which was maligned for years as the lab that invented great stuff--the computer mouse, the point-and-click interface, Ethernet networking--but did little to let Xerox shareholders cash in on it.
And now 100 million people agree that the iPad is a great computer.
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The great irony of Apple Computer is that the very posture that won Steve Jobs a cult following-creating an exclusive group of iconoclastic techies who stubbornly refused to bow to Microsoft or IBM-hobbled his company.
Robert Metcalfe, who three decades ago invented Ethernet, the first great electronic protocol for computer networks, foresees a "gigalapse"--a blackout spanning one billion person-hours.
In 1997, many lovers of the game, myself included, were convinced that if the computer were to win, the great romance, mystery and living metaphor of chess would disappear and people would stop caring about the game.
But last week, at Dell World in Austin (a great first conference for the computer maker, by the way), the pieces fell into place all at once.
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It were Intel and Microsoft that reaped the great big benefits of the booming computer market and not grandfather Big Blue IBM, which ended up in a severe crisis as a result of it.
Lindgren acknowledges that the two companies are on the verge of the next great leap or inflection point, to borrow from the computer industry lexicon.
Hambre asserted the great threat to citizen privacy in the computer age is not from government, but from criminals and certain highly-invasive private sector businesses.
The personal computer is one of the great inventions of the 20th century, and though we like to think of it as a new technology, it is, in fact, ancient by high tech measures.
The benefits of owning a smarter computer than the next guy, for example, are just too great.
Scientists like Omar Ghattas see great potential in the exponentially more powerful Stampede computer.
History is littered with examples, such as the Seiko Ruputer wristwatch computer, that sounded great in theory but turned out to be lemons in practice.
Among those speaking at the event are international celebrities, such as Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, and lesser-known entrepreneurs with a great idea to change the world.
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That is why we have given free schools and academies the same freedoms the best independent schools enjoy to hire great linguists, computer scientists, engineers and others who can inspire their pupils.
In 1967, long before Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, and Apple were launched, Merrill Lynch published a research report correctly predicting that the computer industry would be one of the great growth stories of the next generation.
Several of Roambi's developers come from the computer-games industry, where expertise in producing great graphics on small screens is plentiful.
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He's got a crush on his computer operating system, named Tammy, and has the great misfortune of getting stuck in a time loop.
Doubling your screen real estate is a great way of getting the most out of the information that your computer's giving you without having to switch back and forth between pages on a smaller, single-screen setup.
He says that Visa has a great brand, a huge network and one of the most powerful, reliable computer systems on the planet.
But if we want to be able to offer everyone an efficient way to access great investment advice, then a computer-based model is really the only way this can be achieved.
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Some technologies, certainly those involving the computer and other ways of managing information, do indeed cross over, and give great hopes of spurring technological capacity in the poorest countries.
The painter could become just as rich as the computer whiz so long as the savings from spills that the lid offers are as great as the productivity gains from the chip.
But to his great sadness, 5-year-old Patrick rarely wants to chat with him on the computer.
Often he hears computer science or engineering students say that great GPAs or a top name college are the ticket to a great startup job.
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But it's very hard to make a computer that's both a great laptop and a great tablet, even if the operating system contains elements of both.
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No one has made the perfect tablet yet: the iPad is a great product, but it's limited and I find myself having to use a computer to perform certain tasks.
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Lenovo's new C-Series AIOs reshape the affordable home computer into a smart, space-saving all-in-one PC, combining great multimedia features and performance that make these ideal PCs for family use and home entertainment.
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