telecomputer

plural telecomputers

1. datedA proposed device combining the functions of a computer and a television, telegraph, telephone, teleporter or telecommunicator.

   Great talent is available to conceive and design self-education telecomputer programs: expert programmers, technicians, movie and television directors[…]

   1999, Melville Campbell Branch, The planning imperative and human behavior

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   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[…]

   1980 January 1, Texas Monthly, volume 8, number 1, page 64

   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.

   1990, George F. Gilder, Life After Television, pages 36–37

   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.”

   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

2. A computer that can be controlled remotely; a telecomputing system.