7 Oct
1998
7 Oct
'98
7:08 a.m.
Sam wrote:
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.
It certainly didn't officially have the name 'Apple VI' (or Apple 6), but
it is obvious that marketing viewed it that way, since they were responsible
for assigning the product codes. The engineers may not have, but so what?
In a company the size of Apple (even in 1982/83), engineers rarely get any
say in the names of products. The Lisa is actually a rare example of the
engineering name being adopted by marketing.
Anyhow, this is about a zillion percent more evidence for someone (but not
necessarily everyone) in Apple considering it to be an Apple VI than there is
for it ever having been considered an Apple IV.