"appliance computer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1988, Random House Value Publishing, Home Computers, →ISBN, page 53:",
          "text": "While consumer computers offer color graphics, joysticks, and other video game spinoffs, their computational ability is not nearly as powerful as that of some similarly priced appliance computers.",
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          "ref": "2014, Gerard Alberts, Ruth Oldenziel, Hacking Europe: From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes, page 53:",
          "text": "While the MK14 was providing British enthusiasts with an affordable way to explore microprocessors, the first “appliance computers,” the Commodore PET2001 and Apple II, were being released in the USA.",
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        "A computer sold to consumers as a unit ready to be switched on and used, rather than a kit for self-assembly."
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        "(computing, dated) A computer sold to consumers as a unit ready to be switched on and used, rather than a kit for self-assembly."
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        "computing",
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  "word": "appliance computer"
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        "(computing, dated) A computer sold to consumers as a unit ready to be switched on and used, rather than a kit for self-assembly."
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