[TriLUG] OT: Computer Product Brand Names...

[Ken Mink]

This is similiar, but a little different. I used to be a sysadmin at
Gateway. We had a saying, "There's the right way and then there's the
Gateway."

Ken

On 12/8/05, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/7/05, Israel J Pattison <pattison at usa.com> wrote:
> > The conversation about TRS-80 and PS/2, I had to point out that the
> computer
> > industry seems plagued by brand names that are easily parodied.  I
> wonder
> > why these companies don't think about the nicknames their products will
> > acquire once they reach the end user.  Here are a few I can think of:
> >
> > DB/2, PS/2, OS/2:  Half a {computer, database, operating system}
> > PS/2:  Piece of Snot/2
> > TRS-80:  Trash-80
> > Thinkpad:  Stinkpad
> > Intellistation:  Repellistation
> > Aptiva:  Craptiva
> > Logitech:  Logiwreck
> >
> > Can you think of others?
>
> IBM Harddrives?
>
> Deskstar: Deathstar (because it killed your data?)
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner
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