[cctalk] Re: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)

Before we do any more automotive analogies of the "personal computer" definitions, . . . Could somebody explain to me What is a "muscle car"? What is a "sports car" I have heard the Ford Mustang, which seems like a Foulcon with cosmetically redesigned body panels, referred to as each of those. I think that the Mustang came stock with one of the wimpiest six cylinder engines that Ford had. If you special ordered the optional four cylinder engine, would it still be a "muscle car"? Handling seemed to be pretty much unchanged from the Foulcon. Did you need the dealer-option racing stripe to be a "sports car"? We can at least all agree that the Ford Mustang was not a "personal computer", nor "Personal Computer", although almost any Personal Computer could fit in the back seat or the trunk, but probably not in the glove compartment. A mini-computer, disunirregardless of whether it was "Personal", would require the convertible model, with the top down. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com