XPost: comp.sys.macintrash, comp.sys.mac.advocacy
From: csma@mac.com

Timberwoof  wrote:

> > http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/02/11/cx_jp_0211polldujour.html
>
> "IBM introduced the original personal computer back in 1981" shows you how
> much Forbes knows about personal computers. Apple did that several years
earlier.
> The  Osborne One and a herd of others existed years before the Personal
Computer.

yeah, i always hate the way they phrase that, but they are going off the
marketing term, which i believe did start with IBM. The charlie chaplain
commercials and all that rot... apple later had the term "the most
personal computer", but before IBM it was just apple ][, osborne 1,
commodore pet, etc...

some interesting reading is here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer

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