7 Oct
1998
7 Oct
'98
4:24 a.m.
On 6 Oct 1998, Eric Smith wrote:
Enormous free time? I wish I had that. Before Apple
switched to their
current marketing product numbering scheme
<letter><four digits><two letters>[/<two letters>]
their original product numbering was of the form
A<digit><letter><four digits>
where the first digit was the computer model it was related to, and the
letter designated the type of product. For instance, A2Dxxxx was software
on diskette for the Apple ][, A2Mxxxx was a manual for the Apple ][ or related
products, and IIRC the computers themselves were A2Cxxxx. For the Apple ///
products, the first digit was three. For Lisa products, it was 6. For
some cross-platform products it was 9.
I don't think this indicates that the Lisa was unofficially the Apple VI.
I think its simply the product group Apple deicded to put the Lisa into.
I think what happened to A4 and A5 is that Apple probably planned some
products that would adopt those group numbers but they never materialized.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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