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From: colin@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Colin Kelley)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What's a PC?
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Date: Fri, 22-May-87 12:42:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 12:42:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 18:06:06 EDT
Reply-To: colin@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Colin Kelley)
Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
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In article <3664@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike Meyer) writes:
><someone else>:
><When I appllied for a summer job, people who said PC experience were referring
><to IBM-PC's, not PC's in general. 
>
>In that case, they're helping IBM in it's attempt to convince people
>that it invented the term "Personal Computer," the concepts attached
>to it, and the acronym PC.

Was the mnemonic "PC" in wide use before IBM introduced theirs?  I'm sure
some people referred to Personal Computers, but wasn't the term Home Computer
most popular back in the late 70s?

	-Colin Kelley  ..{cbmvax,pyrnj,bpa}!vu-vlsi!colin

English trivia:  acronyms are _words_ made up of initials, like "scuba" or
"radar"...initials which are spelled out, like "PC" or "IBM" :-), are mnemonics.