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Subject:Re: What to call the beige box... From:"Doug, Data Librarian at Ext 4225" <engstromdd -at- PHIBRED -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:46:16 -0500
Bev Parks writes:
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My mother-in-law calls the beige box the "hard drive," too.
That seems to be a common approach by people just learning. I
was taught to call it the CPU. However, the CPU takes up even
less room inside the box than the hard drive. What then, would
be an appropriate name to call the thing?
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I think the semi-official name (i.e. what the hardware guys in the basement
call it) is "system unit." I've also heard it called "the computer itself"
or, for a minimalist approach, "the Box."
Skoal,
Doug "How may I be honest with you today?"
ENGSTROMDD -at- phibred -dot- com
--Tuvok
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