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From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.UUCP (J. Brian Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What's a PC?
Message-ID: <716@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-May-87 15:43:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.716
Posted: Sun May 24 15:43:26 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 22:39:38 EDT
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Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Summary: micro

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

The term I remember being most used before IBM gained domanince of the micro
market, was microcomputers,  a quick check of some old KiloBauds, Dr. Dobbs and
Bytes, Interface Ages, Creative Computings etc. seemed to confirm this.  It 
seems to me then that using the term PC even (and especially when) refering to
other computers is in a way a tribute to IBM's marketing power.  Thus I still
only use it in refering to the IBM micro and its clones, though now that other
companies are using the term for non-compatiables such as the Amiga, I fear it
is a losing battle.

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J. Brian Waters   UUCP: {ihnp4 | seismo}!{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters