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From: billw@ncoast.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Silly IBM law suit
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Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 19:43:33 EDT
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omega@ut-ngp.UUCP (Omega.Mosley`) in <6125@ut-ngp.UUCP>:

>> Next thing you know, we'll have IBM telling us they own the rights to the
>> words "Floppy Disk", "Motherboard", and "8086".

IBM employees can't call it a "motherboard." Seems that the management thinks
that term may be offensive to some customers. That's the same reason they gave
us "fixed disks."
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