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“PC” is an IBM specific marketing term. The computers made by Vector Graphic were not PCs, they were microcomputers. The correct generic term is microcomputer, e.g. the Apple II was a microcomputer, never a PC. This naming convention persists today, it’s unusual to refer to a Mac as a PC.

It’s a small detail but it’s an important one and makes it seem like this article was poorly researched or the title is clickbait. Vector Graphic never entered the PC industry though they may have helped create the microcomputer industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Graphic



At the time PC was generic for personal computer. Only later was it associated with the IBM PC.


If anything that is the opposite of what is true. At the time IBM invented the term to market the IBM 5150.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer



If you read the Wikipedia page for Vector Graphic, you’ll clearly see it states they produced microcomputers, not PCs. Contrast with IBM, Compaq.




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