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Feels very weird to me too. The problem is that PC meant something much more specific at the time and nobody would have called the Spectrum or even an Amiga or
by donio 4y ago
Feels very weird to me too. The problem is that PC meant something much more specific at the time and nobody would have called the Spectrum or even an Amiga or Macintosh a PC.
- TuringTest 4y agoThey were called like that in other languages, at least in Spanish ("ordenador personal"). Probably it helped that we didn't see IBM compatible PCs at home until the late 80's - early 90's.
- kragen 4y agoThe Spectrum came out in 01982, only a few months after the IBM PC. That was long before IBM's monopoly power (well, and Ziff-Davis) had redefined "PC" to mean "IBM PC compatible". The Amiga and Macintosh didn't exist yet. Most "personal computers" ran CP/M at the time.