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n. (portable computer English)
Usage examples of "portable computers".
He then proceeded to bore the meeting rigid with details of expenditure on stationery and calculators, and whether it was really necessary to supply the sales' staff with portable computers.
Richard had used his data compression subroutines to strip much of the data base onto cubes compatible with our portable computers.
Internet will be incorporated in the future into portable computers, palmtops, PDAs, mobile phones, cable television, telephones (with voice interface), home appliances and even wrist watches.
Some even had portable computers tied into cellular phones so that they could tap into the Internet site out here in the open.
The small keyboard was based on the ones that had been attached to the portable computers on the first Rama mission.
The military helicopter came in the morning and often deposited a few people, probably scientists and research assistants, who checked the data, read out information from the instruments into their portable computers, and did a lot of routine maintenance work.
The Pack Rat had stopped for a moment, as if he were interested in a shop window display of portable computers.
One of these sockets was a standard type provided for the engineers to plug portable computers into to access the maintenance department's database for reference data -- with the complexity of modern systems, carrying the requisite manuals around would have required a wheelbarrow.
Crammed into each one were storage cabinets, a toiletry kit, a foldaway desktop, reading lamp, and power outlets for portable computers, VCRs, and other small appliances.
He downloaded some information on to a disk, then moved on to one of the portable computers that was lying on the bench.
Standard civilian electronics: datapads, cube reader, cubes, portable computers in all sizes from pocket to briefing, communications access sets, data probe wands .
Computer networks worldwide will feature 3-D animated graphics, radio and cellular phone-links to portable computers, as well as fax, voice, and high- definition television.