PC

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer PC stands for Personal Computer. The phrase was coined by IBM as a name for their Intel 8086 computer series.

So what makes a computer personal to me?

• A PC is yours to own, intended to last forever, or as long as the hardware can survive.
• You can study every bit of the code that makes it run.
• You can program it yourself without much effort.
• One person can understand how it works without any special knowledge other than math and logic, by this I mean not just the CPU but everything else. Microcomputers of the 80s come to mind. Modern “PC”s don't fit this criteria because they use extremely complicated design models.