Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!gmr.CSNET!godden From: godden@GMR.CSNET (Kurt Godden) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: term "Personal Computer" Message-ID: <8511061533.AA09214@ucb-vax.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 09:26:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucb-vax.8511061533.AA09214 Posted: Wed Nov 6 09:26:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 20:46:41 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 11 You may not remember when the term 'personal computer' meant just that in any generic sense, but you are in a minority of one. If you still don't believe me, just look through any old issue of magazines such as 'Byte' in the pre-IBM-PC days, when men were men. I distinctly remember thinking at the time when IBM announced their 'PC' that it was a shame they called it that (although a clever marketing move). They have forever tainted a perfectly good word, much the same as the media has ruined the wonderful word 'hacker'. Kurt Godden GM Research Labs