Change PC to Win or Windows

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Sat Jul 19 14:01:21 EDT 2008


Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:02:51 -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
>> On 2008-07-19, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Which term applied to the TRS-80, the Apple II, Altair even...
>> 
>> Not that I remember.  I had a homebrew S-100 bus system, worked
>> with varioius Commodore machines, a few Apples, and some other
>> CP/M systems. I never heard any of them called a 'PC'.  My
>> recollection is that 'PC' was a term that IBM coined.
> 
> The C64 that still sits on my desk has a label on it saying
> “commodore 64 - personal computer”.
> 
and I cut my programming teeth on a Sharp MZ80K personal computer.

http://www.sharpmz.org/mz-80k/images/mz80kade1_1.jpg



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