From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sun Dec 15 2002 - 17:56:44 MST
In a message dated 12/15/2002 2:05:09 PM Central Standard Time,
spike66@attbi.com writes: As an interesting sidelight, I noticed while at the
sporting goods store that paintball guns are now called paintball markers.
Spike,
I suspose everyone on this list has heard the story already but if not
I'll tell it any way.
Back in the sixties computers were huge installations that required
their own rooms, power supplies, air conditioning, etc. Corporations sat up
special computer committees to approve or disapprove purchases of computers
and computer services.
Then came the pocket calculators that might just as easily been called
computers. When I asked why they were called calculators I was told it was a
marketing ploy. If you called it a computer it would possibly have to go
before the corporate computer committee to buy a single calculator.
Ron h.
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