Opinion: The 'anywhere computing' era dawns

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Opinion: The 'anywhere computing' era dawns
Submitted Saturday, October 27, 2007 @ 03:18 PM
computerworld.com -- They were huge, monstrously expensive, owned only by governments and giant corporations and imprisoned in special-purpose rooms. If you were an ordinary Joe, you couldn't get anywhere near one.

Human ingenuity and Moore's Law miniaturized computers and made them cheaper, small and cheap enough for ordinary people to have them in offices and homes.

Soon thereafter, the "portable" computer was born. It was like a regular computer, but you could "take it to go," set it up somewhere else and use it like a desktop PC but in a different location.