teleputer

English

Noun

teleputer (plural teleputers)

  1. Telecomputer.
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 947:
      A woman at U. Cal–Irvine had earned tenure with an essay arguing that the reason-versus-no-reason debate about what was unentertaining in Himself's work illuminated the central conundra of millennial après-garde film, most of which, in the teleputer age of home-only entertainment, […]
    • 1999, Christopher Harper, And That's the Way It Will Be, page 195:
      The new system will be the telecomputer, or "teleputer," a personal computer adapted for video processing and connected by fiber-optic threads to other teleputers all around the world.
    • 2000, Marianne Williamson, Imagine: What America Could be in the 21st Century, page 90:
      Some of the children are painting a mural of undersea life, and others are working at their teleputers, researching and producing multimedia reports on various marine topics.
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