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

Israel J Pattison pattison at usa.com
Fri Dec 9 10:05:44 EST 2005


Actually, over in the PC company I was surprised to hear most engineers
refer to hard drives as "dazz-die" -- as in DASD.

Israel

On 12/9/05, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> > > > --
> > > > Tanner Lovelace
> > > > clubjuggler at gmail dot com
> > > > http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
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> > > > increscent, all sable.
> > > >
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Israel J. Pattison
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