Sentence examples for Computer known from inspiring English sources

After the war, Britain led or matched U.S. advancements in computing, deploying the first dedicated business computer (known as the LEO) and building up an industry that seemed poised to dominate much of the rest of the world.

I.B.M. has said that it has notified a number of computer makers that it believed they were infringing on its patents for a type of computer known as RISC, or reduced instruction set computing.

-- a computer known as the primary root server or, less affectionately, the Black Box.

If they were, that meant there was no DRAM (dynamic random access memory) in the computer, known as the Altair.

His workhorse computer (known to his network as "Homebrew") is nearing the end of its useful life.

That advantage comes from the firm's background in translating by computer (known as "machine translation" in the argot).

The Ceefax service was officially launched in June 1974, broadcast through a mini-computer known as "Esmerelda".

BEHIND THE NEWS In many states, teenagers who send or receive explicit photographs by cellphone or computer -- known as "sexting" -- risk felony charges and designation as a sex offender, but prosecutions are rare and are widely seen as too harsh.

The rover carries a backup computer -- known as "B-side" -- for just such an emergency, and engineers have switched over to it while they work to repair the main computer.

Executives from Hewlett-Packard, a company synonymous with printers, and Compaq Computer, known for personal computers, defended their plans to merge into the world's largest computer maker today on the ground that they would like to be known not for selling hardware, but for selling advice and service.

Maverick Apple Computer, known for doing the cool things first, now offers Bluetooth in all of its PowerBook professional notebooks, and as a built-in option in its iMacs and Power Macs.