The phrase "a solitary computer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a computer that is alone or isolated, often in a context discussing technology, usage, or settings.
Example: "In the corner of the room, there sat a solitary computer, untouched and gathering dust."
Alternatives: "an isolated computer" or "a lone computer".
Or, for that matter, about the tragic waste in sitting up late at night at a solitary computer reviewing such books?
And the two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz plays a solitary computer hacker in Terry Gilliam's futuristic "The Zero Theorem," along with Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton, Mélanie Thierry, Ben Whishaw and David Thewlis.
But almost three decades after a solitary computer hacker ignited the war by stealing a copy of an early version of Microsoft's BASIC programming language and ensuring that more than 70 copies were shared at a meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club, the passions that have fueled the technology industry's most intense rivalry are ebbing.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 — A solitary computer hacker has entangled Microsoft in a high-stakes battle of wits by repeatedly releasing a free program that strips away the software lock that the company created to protect digital movies and songs from being freely copied by Internet users.
IN June 1975, a solitary computer hacker slipped quietly into a van in the parking lot of a local hotel, Rickey's Hyatt House, and "borrowed" a copy of Microsoft BASIC, the first commercial program from a tiny Albuquerque, N.M., company started by two other young hackers, William H. Gates and Paul G. Allen.
Susan Cain ("The Rise of the New Groupthink," Sunday Review, Jan . 15 writes that creative people are more likely to be introverts; that students learn better when alone; and that solitary computer programmers write better code.
As Tyler, a solitary, socially inept computer programmer, Mr. White makes such exquisite use of silence that he almost steals the show from actors with meatier roles, including Luke Wilson as Amy's stoner ex-husband, Levi.
Richard Bernstein, lead guitarist for Rammstein, a German heavy metal group, said the recording process was less collaborative now, more a solitary plinking on a computer keyboard than a group playing effort.
But after that job ended, my computer remained a solitary device — one that I could program, and sometimes use to write, as I picked up odd jobs translating boring legal documents, corporate and government bids and contracts, from Turkish to English and vice versa.
But after that job ended, my computer remained a solitary device one that I could program, and sometimes use to write, as I picked up odd jobs translating boring legal documents, corporate and government bids and contracts, from Turkish to English and vice versa.
Then computers turned gaming into a solitary activity.
