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

[Bill Geschwind]

I have been told that in German IBM stands for Ich Bin Muede, which means I
am tired.


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Tanner Lovelace
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:29 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Computer Product Brand Names...

I happened to stumble upon the Jargon file entry for IBM today which
lists the following interpretations of IBM:
(http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/i/IBM.html )

Inferior But Marketable
It's Better Manually
Insidious Black Magic
It's Been Malfunctioning
Incontinent Bowel Movement

:-)

Of course, the Jargon File seems a bit out of date on some things...

Cheers,
Tanner

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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Tanner Lovelace
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http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
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