Jul 23
"Pardon My Computer"
Funny thing. To spell out "an IBM Machine" is to say "an International Business Machines Machine". In a change made at some point three decades or so back, IBM actually now officially stands for nothing -- it is just three letters. Maybe there is a metaphor in that -- I do not know.
The word "computer" apparently does not spring to mind in 1962. Had it, we could have solved that redundancy problem. This makes that change to IBN all the more perplexing -- because had they dropped that change in the first place, that too would solve the two machines rubbing against each other trouble.
