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 ...

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.