[X4U] "Who makes the best personal computers?" vote at Forbes

[Ted Burton]

At 8:35 AM +0100 on 2/12/05, Paul Moortgat spoke about Re: [X4U] "Who 
makes the best personal computers?" vote at  thusly:

>IBM named their computers "PC", but computers where around then for 
>a longer time.  It's like telling people you've the first LADA, but 
>before that time, there where other cars.  A PC is a computer, but a 
>computer is not a PC.

Yet "PC" was everyone's contraction of personal computer, and the 
Apple II was surely a personal computer. It was after the Mac that I 
began to hear PC mean an MS-DOS machine.  I remember the M$ camp 
denouncing the Mac as a toy because it had a graphical user 
interface, and it was scorned in their marketing as a game machine, 
not a serious computer. Then comes Windows "innovation" and suddenly 
GUI was not a toy and gaming was best on the PC ....  The true genius 
of Microsoft lies in marketing, not in software.

I bought M$ stock when it first went public; likewise Apple. And 
those two investments saved the family from bankruptcy when the 
Alaska economy tanked in 1986-87 and all our other investments turned 
into losses.
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