Cranky Geeks: Who coined the term 'chiclet keyboard'?

I was on this week's Cranky Geeks show, and host/longtime colleague John C. Dvorak introduced me as the guy who coined the term "chiclet keyboard." I smiled but I was thinking, "Oh yeah?" And after some digging around, I have to conclude it wasn't me. True, I was one of the earliest writers to use the phrase, but I suspect that Creative Computing, Newsweek and others used it first. I seem to recall it being a commonly bandied-about phrase well before the IBM PCjr came out, which is when I first used it at InfoWorld. The book Fifty Years among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991, edited by John Algeo, is my source for earlier usages than mine.

Still, it was flattering to be thought of as someone with that kind of early impact on tech terms. Would that it were so!