25 May
2024
25 May
'24
8:21 p.m.
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 5:16 PM Mike Katz via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
You see, we are back to my original comment. The
definition of Personal
Computer is quite fluid. Does it have to be called a Personal Computer
in advertising literature or does any computer that can be used by a
single person, in any environment, constitute a personal computer.
Perhaps in the future people will not so much be fixated on the terms we
use and debate today and will instead mark progress in computing by some
other more sociologically-centered metric, like adoption of computers at
home. That seemed to really take off around 1975, with the public release
of the Altair 8800.
Time will tell.
Sellam