During the next few years, tablet computers could replace many corporate desktop and laptop personal computers.

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On the positive side of the ledger there was strong year-over-year growth in personal desktop computers (32.8%), automobiles (18.6%), and buses (57.3%).

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This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras.

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If desktop computers and terminals proliferate in hotel rooms and other locales, Dulaney thinks users could more easily carry personal data files and applications around in tiny memory cards that just plug into any available desktop system.

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