> On 06/07/2024 9:18 AM CDT Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> We can at least all agree that the Ford Mustang was not a "personal
> computer", nor "Personal Computer", although almost any Personal Computer
> could fit in the back seat or the trunk, but probably not in the glove
> compartment. A mini-computer, disunirregardless of whether it was
> "Personal", would require the convertible model, with the top down.
>
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> Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
Hmmm, if you get into that shiny new 1965 'stang, start it (that's the hard
part. It IS a Ford.), put it in D and press the accelerator, it will solve a
whole slew of differential equations concerning mass, engine power and RPM,
gravity, friction, wind resistance, etc for the speed that solves them all
simultaneously and give an answer on a "solution gauge" (aka speedometer.) So,
a computer. And since automobiles are a very personal thing, most definitely a
"personal computer." :-)
Will
Grownups never understand anything by themselves and it is tiresome for
children to be always and forever explaining things to them,
Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince
