Au crontraire, I belive the first mobile phones were mostly purchased by corporations for their executives to use, if the executive left, the phone stayed with the corporation. Early mobile phones were NOT personal devices.
Back to "who bought them" as a criteria. <pre>--Carey</pre> > On 05/28/2024 9:16 AM CDT Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On May 28, 2024, at 9:56 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > ... > > I don't consider whether a computer is inexpensive enough for the average > > person to use as a criteria for whether a computer could be considered by > > nature a personal computer. > > And that makes sense. Consider that cell phones have always clearly been > personal phones, but the first ones were definitely not priced for the > "average person", not by a long shot. > > paul
