fisher@dvinci.DEC (Burns Fisher, MRO3-1/E13, DTN 231-4108.) (11/05/85)
It was certainly not coined by one of the "big" computer companies for their own product. I would not be surprised if it came from Portia Isakson (sp?) who was writing a column on personal computing in the mid-late '70s in (I think) one of the standard trade journals (IEEE Spectrum?). Burns