telecomputer

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English

Etymology

From tele- +‎ computer.

Noun

telecomputer (plural telecomputers)

  1. (dated) A proposed device combining the functions of a computer and a television, telegraph, telephone, teleporter or telecommunicator.
    • 1980 January 1, Texas Monthly, volume 8, number 1, page 64:
      If Adler has his way, the telecomputer will become an inescapable part of the life of every American. He envisions political campaigns waged with his machines […]
    • 1990, George F. Gilder, Life After Television, pages 36–37:
      Like the rulers of radio in 1950, all the entrenched interests are declaring that the new technology of the telecomputer is unlikely to have an impact for a decade or two.
    • 1997 [1990], David Foster Wallace, quoting George Gilder, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
      For Gilder, the new piece of furniture that will free Joe Briefcase from passive dependence on his furniture will be “the telecomputer, a personal computer adapted for video processing and connected by fiberoptic threads to other telecomputers around the world.”
    • 1999, Melville Campbell Branch, The planning imperative and human behavior:
      Great talent is available to conceive and design self-education telecomputer programs: expert programmers, technicians, movie and television directors […]
  2. A computer that can be controlled remotely; a telecomputing system.

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