Bir de Commodore PET olayı var. Ona da önce PET ismini seçmişler "Pet ROCK"dan dolayı. Daha sonra sözlüğü açıp PET'i Personal Electronic Transactor'ın kısaltması olarak tanıtmışlar 😃
>Michael, let's get the facts once and for all: Was the VIC-20 name a result of rounding the total amount of memory in the system or a result of rounding the number of screen columns?
The name VIC comes from "video Interface Chip" which made the computer possible. At one point, I called the computer "The Commodore Spirit" but it turned out that "spirit" in Japan means "ghoul from hell" or something like that, so we went back to VIC. But VIC sounded like a truck driver, so I insisted on attaching a number. I picked "20" and when Jack asked, "Why 20?" I replied, "because it's a friendly number and this has to be a friendly computer." He agreed. The number 20 has no relation to any technical feature...just my idea of a friendly sounding number. That sounds a bit bizarre, looking back on it, but we did a lot of things by instinct in those days and our research at Wharton suggests that instinct is still a key driving factor in the development of "out of the box" technologies like the VIC.
(By the way, the Commodore PET was named after the "PET Rock" by Jack and Chuck Peddle. After they named it, they had to find a reason for calling it that, so Chuck combed the dictionary and came up with "Personal Electronic Transactor."😉
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