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"It is usually called a printing programmable calculator or desktop calculator [...] in order to be able to overcome the fears of computers." We still do the s
by tr352 11y ago
"It is usually called a printing programmable calculator or desktop calculator [...] in order to be able to overcome the fears of computers."
We still do the same, but now we call it a smartphone.
- listic 11y agoInterestingly, Nintendo did similar things for US launch: called theirs an "Entertainment System" and designed it to have a technically not necessary loading mechanism similar to a VCR, to dissociate it from the game consoles of the day.
- agumonkey 11y agoAnd cancelled the AVS https://www.google.com/search?q=nintendo+avs https://www.google.com/search?q=nintendo+avs project because of that too. So stylish but so not the Nintendo history got to remember.