28 May
2024
28 May
'24
3 p.m.
Au crontraire, I belive the first mobile phones were mostly purchased by corporations for
their executives to use, if the executive left, the phone stayed with the corporation.
Early mobile phones were NOT personal devices.
Back to "who bought them" as a criteria.
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 05/28/2024 9:16 AM CDT Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On May 28, 2024, at 9:56 AM, Bill Degnan via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
I don't consider whether a computer is inexpensive enough for the average
person to use as a criteria for whether a computer could be considered by
nature a personal computer.
And that makes sense. Consider that cell phones have always clearly been personal
phones, but the first ones were definitely not priced for the "average person",
not by a long shot.
paul