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Article #1409Re: origin of "personal computer"
From: Bill Henneman
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1985 13:11
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1985 13:11
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To the best of my recollection, DEC didn't use the word personal in
conjuction with computer until the late 70's: they certainly weren't
using it in the 60's. I qoute from my 1963 edition of the DEC PDP1
handbook:
PDP stands for *Programmed Data Processor* and is a trademark
of Digital Equipment Corporation.
The same quote appears in my July, 1969 edition of DEC's
Introduction to Programming
PDP-8 Family Computers
and my 1970 edition of DEC's
Small Computer Handbook
I can find no expansion of the PDP acronym in any DEC manual with
a publication data later than 1970.
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