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From: lbl@druhi.UUCP (LocklearLB)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM ; why?
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Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 19:04:29 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  3 19:04:29 1985
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>     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.
>James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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Excuse me, but I certainly hope you meant to put a :) after that sentence.
If you didn't, I'm sure that you never heard of an Apple personal computer
or a Radio Shack personal computer.  Both were introduced years before
IBM entered the market.  Neither of these was the first personal computer
by a long shot.  The term "personal computer" has been around a lot
long than IBM's PC has.  IBM's use of the term PC is merely a marketing
ploy designed to make people think of their product first when the terms
PC or personal computer are used.

Barry Locklear
AT&T Information Systems Labs
Denver, CO
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