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Subject:Re: What to call the beige box... From:Laurie Rubin <lmr -at- SYL -dot- NJ -dot- NEC -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:11:29 -0400
In conversations with Gateway (guess what computer I have) both sides
(them and me) call the box "the computer," since it contains all of the brains.
Laurie
> In a post on a different subject, Matt Ion <mion -at- DIRECT -dot- CA>
> wrote...
> > I just helped a friend of mine set up her computer today. She didn't know
> > much about it other than that it had three components: the monitor, the
> > keyboard, and the hard drive (the big box that everything plugs into).
