Whatchamicallthem?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Sun Jan 11 13:51:02 1998

At 09:16 AM 1/11/98 -0800, you wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Francois Auradon wrote:
>
>> Hi all, Is there an official name for all various computer packages?
>> What I trying to find is how to call a computer that is just a keyboard
>> that you plug on the TV (a la C64)versus a computer that has everything
>> attached (TRS 80 mod 4) versus a PC style where components are separate.
>
>For computers like the C-64, the TI-99/4a, Atari 800, etc. I call the CPU
>a "console". Basically, anything with an integrated CPU, keyboard and
>video output I call a console. I don't tend to think of things like the
>Apple ][ as "consoles" because they didn't use a TV as their monitor by
>default, which the above systems generally did (there goes my Apple ][
>bias again). But really, the Apple ][ fits my description of "console".
>
>The all-in-one dealies like the TRS-80 Model II/III and their ilk would
>be "computers" because they have all the basic adjuncts to define an
>entire computer in the most generic sense of the word (CPU, keyboard,
>display, storage).
>
>Piece-part systems like the IBM, I'd call "systems" because you have a
>system consisting of a CPU and peripherals, such as the keyboard, monitor,
>disk drives, perhaps a mouse...

    What would you call a HP Integral? It has screen, printer, keyboard
(detachable but stores on the unit), disk drive, CPU, memory, etc in one
unit. But also has a HP-IB cable connection and can be connected to upto 14
peripherals including printers, instruments, more floppy or hard drives, etc.

  I don't think you can clearly differentiate some of these machines.

 Joe
Received on Sun Jan 11 1998 - 13:51:02 GMT