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Subject:Computer products named after people (was Re: PC) From:"Matthew B. Hicks" <matt -at- UNIDATA -dot- UCAR -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 1 Jun 1995 09:57:56 -0600
> You mean like Bernoulli? Hollerith card? Ada? Eliza?
> > Regarding Bob... where I work we had a product that needed a
> > name and someone proposed "Vincent." The idea was shot down
> > because "Nothing in the computer industry has ever been named
> > after a person." I said, "What about the Lisa?" They said,
> > "Yeah, and look what happened to that." Could be the same
> > fate awaits Bob...
*> Come to think of it... I can't think of any other computer products
*> offhand that have used a person's name.... and lived to tell.
How about Newton? PASCAL? Lots of fonts are named after their designers,
but I guess fonts aren't really computer products, are they? SAM
(Symantec AntiVirus for the Macintosh) is quite successful. Apple doesn't
seem to learn: last year they had the short-lived Houdini card.
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