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

[Greg Brown]

Ah, who could forget the IBM 1620?  Instead of actually calculating
math it would look up results in tables stored in memory.  This gem
was later nicknamed the CADET ("Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try").

And growing up IBM stood for "I've Been Moved" (Washington D.C. to
Tucson in our case).

Greg


On 12/9/05, ronyoung at nc.rr.com <ronyoung at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> I Be Messedup
>
> Itty Bitty Minds - (got this from a former IBMer)
>
> Ron Young
> (M) 919-621-9015
>
> ----- 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
> > > > > --
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> > > > > 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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