personal computer

Noun

Meaning

a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time

Synonyms

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Examples

I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it's much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad. Seymour Cray

The personal computer... went to individuals first before it went to corporations... The corporations are sitting, wishing this whole friggin' thing [Electric cars] to go away. Which is exactly what the computer companies' attitude was to personal computers. Andy Grove

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. Larry Ellison

We must always give our users pure sex. It's like a rendezvous in the back seat of an automobile with a beautiful girl. One's experience with the personal computer should be better than the greatest orgasm you could have. Jean-Louis Gassée

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances. Bill Gates

The new generation, raised on TV and the personal computer but deprived of a solid primary education, has become unmoored from the mother ship of culture. Camille Paglia

Close letter words and terms