Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!bu-cs!bzs From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: What's a PC? Message-ID: <8274@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 18:48:45 EDT Article-I.D.: bu-cs.8274 Posted: Mon Jun 1 18:48:45 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 02:07:24 EDT References: <3650@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <57500004@gorgo.UUCP> Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci. Lines: 14 In-reply-to: bsteve@gorgo.UUCP's message of 29 May 87 13:20:00 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.4 of Mon Mar 23 1987 on bu-cs (berkeley-unix) Re: IBM invented the term 'Personal Computer' with the introduction of its 8088 based system. Advertisement from Kilobaud Magazine, February, 1978, issue 14, pg 63 "Apple II, the personal computer" Same issue, pg 103, Ad from Addison-Wesley Publishing: "BASIC and the Personal Computer" by Thomas A. Dwyer and Margot Critchfield. -Barry Shein, Boston University