Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote a report from the real world:

>I recently had the opportunity to see information about the relative
>frequency of search keywords used at the Google search engine
>(www.google.com).  In comparing the relative frequencies of the terms:
>
>MPE, MPE/iX, HP-e3000, HPe3000, HP-3000, and HP3000
>
>it was interesting to see that less than 1/3 of one percent of people used
>either 'e' form of the name, and that for the majority (over 66%) of people
>who searched for one of the "3000" forms it's just plain old "HP3000".
>
>So to marketing it may be an e3000, but to the world at large that's
>apparently not what comes to mind when they think of one.
>
>Also any 3rd parties who have removed every non-e reference to the 3000 from
>their web sites may be missing out on all of the people doing searches for
>"HP3000" :-)

Subliminally, I began (a while ago) to write this name as "hp3000" because
I like the "graphics" quality of this combination of lower-case "hp" and
numeric "3000".  To avoid confusion, though, I write "hp3000-L" with
an upper-case "L" :-)

So, I enjoy chatting about the hp3000 computer and its name.  What is
YOUR favorite way to display the 3k's appellation?





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