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Until the early 1980's most monitors were terminals. They were boxy video display terminals (VDT's) combined with an attached keyboard.

In 1981, IBM introduced the first PC, also known as a "three-piece computer" because the monitor, keyboard and CPU were separate, rather than earlier computer terminals, which combined the monitor and keyboard.

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