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[QUOTE=zacheryjensen;768090]By whose definition? Yours? When the term "Personal Computer" was coined, maybe you're too young or new to computing to know this but, most computers required a room of their own to house them, and a team of operators to keep them running. Those computers were highly controlled, and though in some cases (such as at universities) a person could get away with using them generally, the common case was that the operators controlled everything those computers would run.
MMM when I first commence "computer studies" in year nine (we called it fourth form) we were compiling instructions we marked a punch card and then sent these away to be run thorugh some huge computer and the results were then sent back to us. My first hands on experience with a computer was in that same year with a machine which was larger than the average industrial photocopier and the most we could do with it was a text based games program (I crashe a multi million dollar space craft on the surfacxe of the moon). YOu average microwave would havemore computing power than that machine.
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