Who coined the term personal computer?

Answer 1

Google the words: George Pachter 1978 Computerworld . . . to confirm the facts below from Google's publication archives...

In 1977 George Pachter, who was both an amateur radio "ham" enthusiast and an owner of a thriving Philadelphia area typewriter & business machines company saw the handwriting on the wall, whereby those new microprocessors will find their way into typewriters and will completely revolutionize his industry. Home computers were introduced just about that time and George Pachter came up with the concept of inviting average business people to experience them and to utilize them in their office. He borrowed the word "personal" from his one time 1968 Ford Mustang, promoted as a "personal" automobile, and packaged a trade show, titled "Business & Personal Computer Sales Expo," produced under his corporate name Produx, 2000, Inc. The event was held at New York's Madison Square Garden, Los Angeles Convention Center, Houston Civic Center, Philadelphia Civic Center, and other convention centers nationwide. Trade show Propaganda was circulated to every subscriber of computer publications of the day, and millions of "Personal Computer Show" invitation tickes have been distributed by mail throughout a full decade during which these events were held. The IBM corporate exhibit at the early events came from the company's GSD (General Systems Division), showing off mainframes and mini computers, since IBM had not introduce their PC until the summer of 1981, by which time the word Personal had taken hold over rival adjectives, as home computers, small business computers, microcomputers, hobby computers, experimental computers and others. Upon IBM's entry into the filed, and naming their machine, the "PC", thereby legitimizing the term further, there was no reason to identify the new computers by any of the former adjectives.