ВЗ In August 1981 a meeting ___
(take) place in Miami which changed the lives of everyone everywhere forever.
В4 Just after 10 o'clock that morning a switch ___
(throw) on a white plastic box 50 cm wide and 15 cm high. At that moment, the first cheap, easy-to-use computer was born. New creation ___(call) the Personal Computer, or PC for short.
B5 The scientists thought that only about 250000 PCs
___(be) necessary for the world's use but in the first five years three million PCs were sold, and over the next 15 years 500 million more were made.
B6 Today PCs ___
(use) in almost every office in the world as well as in millions of homes.
B7 Almost half of these are connected to the Internet, _____ (put) their users in touch with almost one billon people. B8 Computers can_____ (employ) for all sorts of purposes: communicating with business customers, friends and family, research, shopping and entertaining. B9 Computers _____(transform) our world, and people everywhere now depend on them every day of their lives.