That's the story I heard.
The original name Commodore chose for the VIC was 'Vixen'.
In German, that's a naughty word, too.
Jeff
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 06:45:48 -0800 (PST) Cameron Kaiser
<ckaiser_at_oa.ptloma.edu> writes:
>::Trivia question: Why are VIC-20's called VC-20 in Germany?
>
>The running apocryphal story is because VIC, pronounced "fick" in
>German,
>comes out as a naughty word. (Take a guess.) There is some doubt
>about
>the veracity of this, of course.
>
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