11.   Whereas a few years ago a mainframe computer would have been essential to perform corpus processing, a desktop computer now suffices.

12.   When launched, the Macintosh was the smallest desktop computer ever produced.

13.   The desktop computer grew in power and user friendliness until it was increasingly hard to tell apart from the workstation.

14.   GLOBAL electronic mail, with desktop computers linking Courtaulds businesses round the world, has moved a step nearer reality.

15.   Already, he noted, in home and office space in Japan is so tight that desktop computers have mostly given way to much smaller laptops.

16.   An administrative assistant on the East Coast applies for maternity leave over her desktop computer.

17.   An estimated two-thirds of the desktop computers need repair.

18.   And all of that information can be easily ported to a desktop computer, according to Navitel.

19.   And in the Oxygenated future, a desktop computer would be largely beside the point.

20.   And that means that cheap desktop computers are here to stay.