"Mr. Travel" wrote:

Greg Procter wrote:
TMOliver wrote:

"Greg Procter" wrote ...


My answer is absolutely straight.
I own an IBM PC which is significantly different in specification to an
XT.
I don't have a manual for it, but I do have a manual for an XT. They are
not the same.

To most of us, "PC" simply is the vernacular description first accorded
small "desktop" computers of IBM/IBM clone genre.


That's entirely due to your ignorance of computers.

What about your ignorance of the XT being a PC.
It's name was IBM Personal Computer XT, also known as IBM PC/XT




IIRC, IBM itself produced a series of machines of this type, including the
"XT" model and the (earlier, but you're asking for memories from long ago)
"AT". It's possible that the first or an early example of the series of
products may have actually borne the "PC" designation, but the term soon
passed into the more generic usage. I can barely recall my first desktop,
1985 or so, an NCR with 2 5.25" floppies combined with the CPU and the
Monitor, all in single heavy package.


Ok, so you were a later starter. I guess that's not your fault.

Maybe he was 6 in 1985.


Maybe, but I was in my 30s, had built my own computer, and then moved up
through the varieties of British mini-computers using binary and the
various Basic programming languages.
The IBM PC was an interim product that was only on the market for a
short time _before_ the XT. Judging by Wikipedia it has been totally
forgotten by those who were 6 or younger in 1985.