The inauguration of the new hall coincided with the search for a new name for this exhibit category. One suggestion was "CeBOT" - the German acronym for "Center for Office and Organization Technology". However, the Exhibitors' Advisory Committee decided in favor of "CeBIT " Center for Office and Information Technology", not least because the syllable "BIT" (the smallest unit of information handled by a computer) alluded to the growing importance of electronic data processing in the Seventies, and even more so in the Eighties, when PC manufacturers flocked to the HANNOVER FAIR |