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From: cej@ll1.UUCP (One of the Jones Boys)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What's a PC?
Message-ID: <587@ll1.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-May-87 15:11:29 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 23 15:11:29 1987
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In article <852@vu-vlsi.UUCP>, colin@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Colin Kelley) writes:
> 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> 

	When I bought my Apple II way back in 1978 (:-)) I went
looking for a personal-computer (lowercase) as opposed to a
mini-computer, or a main-frame.  Many sales people called them Home
Computers.

	I was talking about a class of computer, and they were
talking about a type of product.

	Later, when IBM first released their IBM-PC, and put the
lock on PC, most all of the people that I talked to about it (who
knew computers) felt like I did, that the WORD personal-computer was
in common, though maybe limited, usage and IBM couldn't use it.

	Unless initials and what they stand for are different enough?

				Llewellyn Jones