Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM ; why? Message-ID: <2800015@ccvaxa> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 10:39:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.2800015 Posted: Mon Nov 4 10:39:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 03:48:29 EST References: <1751@peora.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:peora.UUCP:1751:ccvaxa:2800015:000:742 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Nov 4 09:39:00 1985 > No, I don't remember when "PC" meant "a personal computer" in any > generic sense. And I doubt if you do either. The only PC's that > existed before IBM were "Pocket Computers". IBM coined the term > personal computer. /* Written 8:26 am Nov 1, 1985 by > jimomura@lsuc.UUCP in ccvaxa:net.micro.atari */ ---------- Oh, come on. The term was nothing like as ubiquitous as it is now, but both the term "personal computer" and the initialism "PC" were in common use (among the relatively small number of people interested in such things) well before the IBM PC. One of the complaints about the IBM was that they had co-opted a common and useful term as their trademark. -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece