personal chattel

n : any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals

or a car etc) [syn: {chattel}]

personal computer

(PC) A general-purpose single-user {microcomputer}

designed to be operated by one person at a time.

This term and the concept has been successfully hijacked by

{IBM} due to the huge market share of the {IBM PC}, despite

its many obvious weaknesses when compared to other equally

valid claimants to the term, e.g. the {Acorn} {Archimedes},

{Amiga}, {Atari}, {Macintosh}.

(1994-11-02)