The tags aren't visible to humans; programmers use them so that computers can identify and manipulate the data within a document.
It handled graphics, sound, and video as easily as other computers of its time manipulated plain text.
On defense, the player chooses one of two players to control, and the computer manipulates the others.
The binary abacus is used to explain how computers manipulate numbers.
While ordinary machines work by manipulating stuff, computers manipulate information, symbols which are essentially weightless.
A computer manipulates the brakes to keep the Disco crawling down at 3.5 to 7.5 miles an hour, or faster if you apply the gas.
Now, a laptop computer can store and manipulate vast libraries of sound and electronic music has become ubiquitous.
Instead, Searle argues, the computer was manipulating "a bunch of meaningless symbols".
A computer can manipulate bytes of data very easily, but it can't do much with a streaming analog signal.
The technology that will enable computers to generate and manipulate 3-D video images is still years away.