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

David McDowell turnpike420 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 09:22:39 EST 2005


Incredibly Big Mistake

On 12/8/05, Jim Wright <wrightjim at gmail.com> wrote:
> of course, there were the days when IBM stood for "I've Been Moved" as many
> of the people who were migrated to the triangle know.
>
> On 12/8/05, Kevin Flanagan <kevin at flanagannc.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> > > --
> > > Tanner Lovelace
> > > clubjuggler at gmail dot com
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> > > increscent, all sable.
> > >
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