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The apostrophe means that the -es that was used to form the possessive of words in older English was shortened by leaving out the e. Geoffrey Chaucer would have spelled the word "computeres" if computers happened to have been around in the 1300's.

It could also be used to contract "computer is" such as you might do when you yell "The computer's on fire!"

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