> AFAIK Personal Computer wasn't shortened to PC until IBM used it for their computer > line. I don't recall it ever being used as a generic slang for all Personal Computers > (in the UK a PC back then was a Police Constable). > > No matter how popular you think using PC to mean all Personal Computers was, we're > not in 1983 and today PC means something else. > > You were at best ambiguous and at worst you were wrong, it's impossible for me to say > which.
So you're admitting that Manic Miner *WAS* a computer game, you're just not allowing me to use today's generally accepted term of "PC" to describe a "Personal Computer" from the 80's if it wasn't made by IBM (one of the least successful personal computers at the time)?
Got it.
p.s. I pulled out some of my old RUN magazines. It does refer to the C-64 as a PC in the magazines from time to time when it's not calling it by name.