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

[Jim Wright]

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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