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

[Kevin Flanagan]

If you talk to many of the old school IBMers, they call the harddrive in 
a PC a "hard file".

Tanner Lovelace 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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