yellowed murky plastic

[Scott Stevens]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:29:56 +0100 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:

> > I tend to refer to things in nature as first person proper names. 
> > It makes them more friendly and personal.  More people should do
> > this.
> 
> I'm going to give names to all the ICs ever made. It'll hopefully make
> 
> them more friendly and then maybe my designs will start working. More 
> people should give components personal names.
> 
> -tony

Isn't that what the Amiga designers did?  I seem to recall that all the
major chips had girl's names.