I have an origional Apple IIC owners guide, under the "Ask Apple"
Section, there is a question that says: "How did Apple get it's name?"
The answer: (Taken from the Apple IIC book, Apple Presents the Apple IIC,
An Interactive Owner's Guide.)
"The name Apple Computer was chosen late one afternoon as Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak, Apple's founders faced the deadline for filing a
Fictitious Name Statement, part of the business licensing procedures.
After volleying names back and forth with Wozniak for hours, Jobs looked
at the apple he was eating and decided that, unless he or Woz arrived at
something better by five o'clock, they would call the company Apple. Five
o'clock came and went; Apple was the new company's name."
This could be true, or not.
Josh M. Nutzman
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> I don't think anyone can. I think it has to come from your account. Mail
to
> listserv(a)u.washington.edu
Oops. It's listproc(a)u.washington.edu
I think that is the first time I ever quoted my own message. :)
mhop(a)snip.net
> can someone please unsubscribe me? I'm on holliday and can't take the daily
> load of this list.
>
> Frank
I don't think anyone can. I think it has to come from your account. Mail to
listserv(a)u.washington.edu
> > Anyhind in today's list they had "'Why' behind the names"
> > The reason for certain names of companies/items.
> >
> > Apple - desire to be before "Atari" in the phone book.
>
<SNIP>
> apple and eating it. (all this up until this point is true) Then
> what I've heard is that Jobs wanted to name the company in memory of
> Turing's apple, which would explain the bite out of the apple.
>
I like that one. Good explanation for the bite.
>
> > Atari - to look like a Japanese company
>
> Atari is in fact a Japanese word. I forget what it means, but it's the
> equivalent of "checkmate" in the game of Go. Founder of Atari allegedly
> really liked Japanese culture and Go.
>
Pulled out the Japanese dictionary and the definition is close.
"a hit" or "on target".
For awhile I guess they were.
Marc
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In a message dated 97-04-29 00:50:04 EDT, Charles P. Hobbs writes:
<< As for the TI without any chrome at all . . .did it look painted, or . . .
>>
I didn't take a really close look but it didn't appear to be painted. It also
seemed to have a circle on the case above the keyboard.
Lou
I have an Osbourne Executive that is in fairly decent shape and for the
most part works fine. There's no burn-in on the CRT and both floppies work
great, but there seems to be a problem with the power supply or the video
system.
The system boots fine, but once it has booted, the image on the screen
begins to jump or shimmer, and you can hear the fan on the rear of the machine
appear to change speeds, as if there was a power fluctuation.
I would really like to find out what's wrong with this machine, and repair
it if possible, and am hesitant to run it the way it is. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Jeff jeffh(a)eleventh.com
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Collector of classic home computers:
Amiga 1000, Atari 800, 800XL, Mega-ST/2 and XE System, Commodore
C-128D, Plus/4 and VIC-20, IBM 5155, Kaypro 2X, Osbourne Executive
Radofin Aquarius, Sinclair ZX-81, TI-99/4A, Timex-Sinclair 1000,
TRS-80 Color Computer-3 and Model 4, plus Atari Superpong and
2600VCS game consoles.
>Magnetic-card programming of calculators was certainly around before
>then. My HP9100, for example, has a card reader/writer (though I've
>never used it - anybody have any cards compatible with this nearly
>3-decade-old classic?)
>
>Tim. (shoppa(a)triumf.ca)
I recently sold my HP9100b. It had several cards with it, and even a
program library book! Hang on to your 9100 what ever you do! I got $750
for mine, I'm sure an origional 9100 would go for a few more! It was the
first desktop calculator HP made, way back in 1967-69 (somewhere around
there)
Josh M. Nutzman
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Whilst in a self-induced trance, Steven J. Feinsmith happened to blather:
>Susan M Johnson wrote:
>> Currently, the H/Z-100 can run 8", 5 1/4" (40 & 96 tpi), and 3 1/2" (96
>> & 135 tpi) floppy disk drives; MFM hard drives (also RLL, although not
>> common), tape drives, and SCSI drives. CD-ROM drives are also possible.
>
>During days of H/Z-110 and 120... there are only two floppy disk drives,
>5.25" and 8". The 8" system was short lived. There was never using
>3.5"
>but some people successful attempted this way when H/Z-100 were no
>longer
>in market. They have to write a special software included BIOS to work
>with 3.5" drive. SCSI system on H/Z-110 or 120 was very rarely. Those
>days it was called SASI. There was never using tape drive or CD-ROM
>drives
>because H/Z-110 or 120 never use with IDE or EIDE. But it can use with
>SCSI based interfaced.
I have a few comments on what each of you said:
Steven: Notice that Susan wrote "Currently," at the beginning of the
sentance. That means that altho the 3.5" disk drives weren't available at
the time of the machine's introduction, you can easily get any machine that
uses the standard 34-pin floppy interface to use a 3.5" disk drive. I
currently use 3.5" drives on both my Atari 800 and my Tandy Color Computer
3, neither of which had 3.5" drives available at the time of their
introduction. Provided you were replacing an 80TkDSDD 5.25" (or lesser)
drive with an 80TkDSDD 3.5" drive, you would not need a new BIOS, as the
drives are electrically equivilant.
Steven: Also, SASI and SCSI are *different*, SASI being the precursor of
SCSI. Altho they are *somewhat* compatible IIRC, SCSI did have extra
features that could not be used with a SASI interface.
Susan: You're sentance above is slightly misleading, however, as there were
no 96tpi 3.5" drives that I've ever heard of (and I own some *weird* ones!)
Everything from the 200K SSSD Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 (used for Tandy's
*early* non-MSDOS laptops) right on up to the 2.88Meg ED drives are 135TPI.
Hope this helps!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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> Hi, I saw the post on the old calculator so here's mine:
> A buddy of mine used to work at a Salvation Army so I got
> a lot of stuff that they threw out. One was an old TI
> calculator that had these strips you fed in one side and
> a motor pulled them through (almost like a credit card reader)
>
> What is it? How old is it?
>
> Probably a TI-59. I recall owning a TI-58c and TI-59 calculator back
> in high school. In fact, I think I still have the TI-59, books and
> cards for it buried somewhere. If anyone is interested, I don't have
> any desire to collect calculators.
