The phrase "as a modern computer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when making a comparison or describing something in relation to the capabilities or characteristics of contemporary computers.
Example: "The new software operates efficiently, as a modern computer would handle complex tasks with ease."
Alternatives: "like a contemporary computer" or "similar to a current computer".
Although Babbage's analytical engine is entirely mechanical, it has the same essence as a modern computer.
The mathematical statements that can be proved are called theorems, and it follows that, in principle, a mechanical device, such as a modern computer, can generate all theorems.
In an antiseptic factory in San Jose, Calif., Christopher Bajorek peers at trayloads of mirror-surfaced hard-drive platters as they stream by and contemplates the fact that the disks, which contain almost as much technology as a modern computer chip, sell for less than the cost of a plastic Frisbee.
Back in 1997 we learned that the IRS had spent more than $4 billion on what was described as a modern computer system.
Early electronic computers were generally programmed by being rewired, or via plugs and patch panels; there was no separate program stored in memory, as in a modern computer.
Starting around 2000, DTRA funded fire prediction modeling to facilitate the incorporation of models within a modern computer modeling package such as HPAC [ 8] and we have used the underlying fire start theory from this work in our calculations.
As a result, modern computer systems are unable to analyze all the available data – a situation that will become even worse in the foreseeable future.
Although the Smith Chart has been largely superseded in its role as a calculator by modern computer and calculator software, the chart still provides a very helpful way of visualizing the relationship between immittances and reflection coefficients and is routinely used to display data related to the performance of microwave devices and circuits.
My Maps is a tool that in many ways is just as relevant to modern computer users as is a document editor or slideshow creator, so it's great to see Google recognize that and package it alongside those tools.
Cornell engineers are part of a national effort to reinvent computing by developing new solutions to the "von Neumann bottleneck," a feature-turned-problem that is almost as old as the modern computer itself.
The ENIAC was the first machine to do useful work as a modern, general-purpose computer.
