On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Or, you could just avoid the whole mess
alltogether
and call it the "Extremely popular fruit-named
company, 1980's market dominating, expandable personal
computing system". And most people will know what
you're talking about.
Or, you could create a major flame war, by calling it "the first personal
computer" :-)
Yes, do! I'll stand back as the users of the Lisp Machines, PDP-8,
LINC, IBM 1401, etc. mob you; after the Old Guard has had their turn,
those punk kids with their Altairs and their rock and roll music can
come in and work you over :)
John
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