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Re:Vintage Apple Advertisements by amelius on Friday December 16, 2022 @06:29AM (#34013377)
It's funny that Apple calls their computers a "PC".

Was that before the IBM PC?

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Re:Vintage Apple Advertisements by mcculley on Friday December 16, 2022 @07:00AM (#34013620)
Yes. It is a weird historical artifact of terminology. We had lots of “personal computers” before IBM made theirs. After that, IBM’s offering became the product most associated with the term. It is a weak example of genericide.
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