20 May
2010
20 May
'10
2:36 p.m.
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
[1] Also some manufacturers (HP being one) called
machines 'calculators'
for marketing reasons, mostly to get past purchasing departments who
'knew' that a computer was a machine from IBM that lived in an air
conditioned room and needed a maintenance contract.
And therefore, for a while, you could purchase "Audio-Visual Equipment"
directly from Bell and Howell. Aside from being black, having a different
power cord, and a latch on the case lid, it sure seemed similar to an
Apple ][.
I defy anyone to come
up with a sensible defintion of personal computer that excludes the
hP9830 (aka Model 30 calculator).
Well, if you are going to stipulate "sensible", then none of the board of
education definitions would apply.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com