Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bu-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bu-cs!hen From: hen@bu-cs.UUCP (Bill Henneman) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: origin of "personal computer" Message-ID: <751@bu-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 08:11:34 EST Article-I.D.: bu-cs.751 Posted: Thu Nov 7 08:11:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 21:26:18 EST References: <8511052150.AA19797@ucb-vax.berkeley.edu> Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 16 To the best of my recollection, DEC didn't use the word personal in conjuction with computer until the late 70's: they certainly weren't using it in the 60's. I qoute from my 1963 edition of the DEC PDP1 handbook: PDP stands for *Programmed Data Processor* and is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation. The same quote appears in my July, 1969 edition of DEC's Introduction to Programming PDP-8 Family Computers and my 1970 edition of DEC's Small Computer Handbook I can find no expansion of the PDP acronym in any DEC manual with a publication data later than 1970.