Microsoft-Paul Allen

Wait! It gets stranger. I just squinted hard at that Byte Mag ad. "Kentucky Fried Computers" is offering a "North Star Computers-FP8 & disk"??? -----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of William Sudbrink via cctalk Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 2:15 PM To: 'Fred Cisin'; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: Microsoft-Paul Allen Hmmm... so they were only "Kentucky Fried Computers" while they were reselling other (IMSAI, etc.) brands? You will never see a Northstar Horizon like case with a "Kentucky Fried Computers" badge on it? Bill -----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin via cctalk Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 2:05 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: Microsoft-Paul Allen On Fri, 19 Oct 2018, William Sudbrink wrote: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_06/Homebrew_CC_J un76.pdf "Greenberg, Mark; Charles Grant (February 1977). "Kentucky Fried Computers advertisement". BYTE. 2 (2): pg 103. Slogan: "A Computer in Every Pot" Address was 2465 Fourth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710" https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1977-02/page/n103 upper right hand corner quarter page ad Hmmmm. where to find "Google streets" of 2465 4th street (east side of street, near Dwight Way) from 40 years ago?, . . . 10 years ago, when I was looking for pictures and memorabilia from those days, a friend of mine said that he thought that he remembered them having a small sign on the front of the building; but he's dead, and his collection of pictures of interest of Berkeley and Albany was dumpstered immediately after his death. Now, there is a biodiesel place and some maildrops there. Hmmm. Maybe, if you contacted KFC and asked their IP lawyers for details and anecdotes for how they have protected their trademark?, . . . --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus