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From: ekwok@mipos3.UUCP (Gibbons V. Ogden)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What's a PC?
Message-ID: <703@mipos3.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 14:35:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: mipos3.703
Posted: Wed May 27 14:35:46 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 04:28:20 EDT
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Reply-To: ekwok@mipos3.UUCP (Gibbons V. Ogden)
Organization: United Americans Determined To Say NO!
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In article <474@houxa.UUCP> version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site mipos3.UUCP mipos3!intelca!amd!amdcad!ames!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!homxb!houxm!houxa!mel1 mel1@houxa.UUCP (M.HAAS) writes:
>I think we all owe IBM one on the name "Personal Computer".
>
>IBM's choice of the name "Personal Computer" was a genius at work.
>It exactly expresses the concept and coming from IBM, legitimized it.
>

You give IBM too much credit. Back in 1977, I took a class at MIT (6.033, at
that time), we talked about "Personal Computers". Around 1979, I used a 
Xerox Star machine, (with all the ICON stuff that people now think of as
an apple invention), and we referred to it as a "personal computer". IBM
popularized it, may be a stroke of marketing genius, not a creative one.


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