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

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Ron Young
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----- Original Message -----
From: David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, December 9, 2005 9:22 am
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Computer Product Brand Names...

> 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
> > > > http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
> > > > (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise 
> and an
> > > > increscent, all sable.
> > > >
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