Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-dvinci!fisher From: fisher@dvinci.DEC (Burns Fisher, MRO3-1/E13, DTN 231-4108.) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: The term \"personal computer\" Message-ID: <1261@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 11:19:19 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1261 Posted: Tue Nov 5 11:19:19 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 04:40:59 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 6 It was certainly not coined by one of the "big" computer companies for their own product. I would not be surprised if it came from Portia Isakson (sp?) who was writing a column on personal computing in the mid-late '70s in (I think) one of the standard trade journals (IEEE Spectrum?). Burns