Posting nonsense? I've posted evidence more than once now...where is yours other than you say so? A single piece of evidence to counter-act mine?
And your argument seems to keep changing. The discussion originally was that no one called them PCs. Which I then countered with sure they do, they used it in marketing all the time. Then after I showed some ads proving that. The argument morphed into "users" don't say that and I'm not a user so how would I have a clue? (even though I had a C64 and a windows PC.) Now the argument is that I'm taking adverts as unfiltered reality and I'm gullible to believe it.
I've never once backed down from my argument that they were indeed referred to as PCs for a time, and I still don't. I know that PCs are Windows-systems nowadays. But the fact still stands that non-IBMs were referred to as PCs for a time. Maybe not by you and your friends, but my evidence is irrefutable that it was referred to as such. And it's not just one commercial or even one company's commercial, but multiple ones.
I don't know if you were referring to Sin2Beta's post when you mentioned others joining in, but he's pretty much saying what I was saying but you keep trying to twist into other things:
The term "personal computer" dates back well before the era this thread relates to. Wikipedia lists the term as dating back to 1963. In this case, the term is really more a small computer for the home than a brand. Then as the personal computer became a reality, different names popped up. Commodore 64, Amiga, Apple ii,ZX Spectrum, TRS 80, Atari 800, etc. I tend to call these types of machines Microcomputers. But they were also certainly personal computers.
But since you believe your own word over the likes of Commodore, Apple, and Radio Shack here's some more evidence that I'm sure you'll somehow refute as me talking out my ass or somehow just being too gullible to believe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer#TerminologyAccording to Wikipedia, the term dates back before IBM ever put a PC in a home setting. But how could that be if PC always meant IBMs only...hmm.
Here's an entry on the
Commodore PET. The first commercially successful mass-market PC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PETOr how about the Amstrad CPC? I don't even need to post a link for that one, do I? It's in the name for crying out loud!
But you seem to be stuck on the fact that you and your group of computer friends didn't call them PCs, therefore none of the rest of it counts. And that marketing terms, somehow don't count (despite the fact that they're the ones that made the machines).
PC gaming may not be my first forte, but I'm VERY interested in the history of gaming and have a shelf full of books on the subject.
Or does Apple, Commodore, Radio Shack, Amstrad, and Wikipedia still count as "no one"? The term has evolved with home computers to mean what it means today. I mean come on man! How much evidence do you need to concede that others did call them PCs back then?! Now, please show me some evidence otherwise.