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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: sour apples - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 21-Aug-83 23:37:26 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 21 23:37:26 1983
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uiucuxc!hamilton    Aug 21 16:34:00 1983

depends on what meaning you put into the word "personal"; to me,
it simply means MY computer, not my time-share of someone else's.
no connotations of software availability (lotsa software for main-
frames; does that make them "personal"?), user-friendliness, or
applicability to novices.  at or before the time the altair came out,
i knew of people who had bought their own pdp-8's and -11's or had
refurbished scrapped mainframes; i call those the first "personal"
computers.  apples and trs's are "popular" personal computers, or
even better "consumer computers".
	wayne ({decvax,ucbvax}!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!)hamilton