"Max Eskin" <maxeskin_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> I consider anything that was marketed as a personal computer a
> personal computer. I would not consider the PDP a personal computer if
> I had one because it's not a personal computer.
By your own criteria, the original PDP-8 *is* a personal computer. DEC
specifically marketed it based on the it being small enough that someone
could transport it in their automobile (specifically, a Volkswagen), and
cheap enough that someone could afford it.
Received on Sun Nov 01 1998 - 19:00:47 GMT
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