Comment My personal etymology (Score 1) 876
I've always assumed that this naming convention started with the Classic Mac. With that, the computer *was* the screen, and if you were lucky enough to have a hard drive, that was the little box attached to the screen.
In previous jobs, it would usually be the longtime Mac users would would use Hard Drive for the computer itself, and I suspect it's just one of those memes that gets spread around.
