Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: > >> How did that ever come to be??? I often wondered about that... It >> should be PC for windows and PPC for Apples!!! In the old days I >> always referred to them as Apple base or IBM base computer but >> somewhere along the way someone changed it??? Who did??? CoolKat >> > > Well calling an Apple a PPC would have been rather confusing in the > day when Apple's ran on a 6502 CPU! > > In the beginning they were called generically 'microcomputers' in > order to differentiate them from mainframe and minicomputers, which > were still very large devices owned by universities and corporations. > > The abbreviation 'PC' specifically identifying DOS-based (and later > Windows-based) computers dates back to the introduction of the IBM PC. > (I was there at the time...I remember a buddy of mine who was an > engineer fro IBM coming home excitedly one day with a big white box > with a couple of floppy drives in it and that distinctive IBM green > phosphor monitor. He was one of the lucky IBM employees to get one of > the first ones off the line at an employee discount. He'd splurged and > got a whopping 64 megabytes of RAM in his.)
"PC" and "Personal Computer" go back before IBM started dabbling in the field. Neat trick, the original IBM pc could only handle 640K. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
