22 Apr
1998
22 Apr
'98
2:56 a.m.
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Doug Spence wrote:
> There were all kinds of small Apple cloners around, with various
Apple
> variety and fruit names ("Granny Smith",
"McIntosh", "Pear", etc.).
The
Any lawsuits there with that second item?
> Apple ][+ was the lack of the Apple logo, and
usually the presence of
> lower case display (though not necessarily the shift-key mod, which
my
> machine lacks). Some had additional stuff,
though, like function
keys and
> slightly differently shaped cases. Or maybe a
different colour of
> plastic.
>
> Maybe I should start collecting Apple clones, seeing as I see them
more
> frequently than actual Apples (clones were more
affordable).
I have seen a Franklin once, and the rest were real Apples.
I think the clones are more interesting than the real
Apples at this
point. They are more varied and in most areas are less common. More
importantly they do have a historical significance.
So how many of them were there
(ballpark)?
> So the Soviets pirated the Apple ][, who
didn't?
>
> A shame about the price, though. Why pirate the Apple if your clone
is
going to be
even MORE expensive than the real thing?
> BTW, my clone fell ill a while ago, and I've replaced it with a
genuine
> Apple //e (the clone is back in its original box).
Thanks to
> depreciation, the //e was *much* less expensive than the clone was.
And
> it even had an additional 256K RAM card in it (now
populated up to
512K).
:)
Too bad the //e won't work with any of my Z80 cards. :/
Sam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't blame me...I voted for Satan.
Coming in September...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0
See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
[Last web page update: 04/13/98]
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
28 Apr
28 Apr
8:31 p.m.
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
No, as far as I know, McIntosh didn't sue Apple for using such a similar
name to theirs. :)
Maybe that's why Apple changed the spelling! :)
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
> There were
all kinds of small Apple cloners around, with various Apple
> variety and fruit names ("Granny Smith", "McIntosh",
"Pear", etc.). The
Any lawsuits there with that second item? 
29 Apr
29 Apr
12:39 p.m.
Doug Spence wrote:
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
No, as far as I know, McIntosh didn't sue Apple for using such a similar
name to theirs. :)
Maybe that's why Apple changed the spelling! :)
Apple used the spelling I learned from my grandmother for the breed
of fruit grown most often in her part of New Hampshire. Well, my
part too during my high school years -- a hell of a place to dump an
unsuspecting Angeleno kid.
I still recall the Apple clones mostly being later than the TRS-80
knock-offs -- and the Byte article about the $15,000 Russian
version was not earlier than 1986 -- I remember which employer's
toilet I was sitting on when I read it.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
> There
were all kinds of small Apple cloners around, with various Apple
> variety and fruit names ("Granny Smith", "McIntosh",
"Pear", etc.). The
Any lawsuits there with that second item?
4:46 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Doug Spence wrote:
Up here we spell it "McIntosh", after the apple's discoverer, John
McIntosh of Ontario. We pronounce it "MacIntosh", though. And when
speaking, it's often abbreviated to just "Mac". McIntosh apples in the
local grocery store bear stickers that read "McIntosh". Also, my uncle
has an apple orchard and he sells Macs as well as other varieties. So I
contend that Apple Computer Inc. has mispelled the name, or has named the
computer for something else. Perhaps it was starting its
"scientist/apple" naming sceme. :)
I don't know how the folks in New Hampshire spell the name of the (fruit)
apple variety. I'll have to take your word for it that they spell it
"Macintosh". As with many family names, there are multiple spellings for
the same pronunciation. But the man the apple variety is named after
seems to be "McIntosh".
Does anyone know what Apple Computer's intentions were, if any, with the
spelling of "Macintosh"?
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
No, as far as I know, McIntosh didn't sue Apple for using such a similar
name to theirs. :)
Maybe that's why Apple changed the spelling! :)
Apple used the spelling I learned from my grandmother for the breed
of fruit grown most often in her part of New Hampshire. Well, my
part too during my high school years -- a hell of a place to dump an
unsuspecting Angeleno kid. > There
were all kinds of small Apple cloners around, with various Apple
> variety and fruit names ("Granny Smith", "McIntosh",
"Pear", etc.). The
Any lawsuits there with that second item? 
4:37 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Doug Spence wrote:
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
No, as far as I know, McIntosh didn't sue Apple for using such a similar
name to theirs. :)
I vaguely recall a licensing arrangement between McIntosh (the stereo
people) and Apple, allowing Apple to call the computer "Macintosh".
Heck, wasn't the name "Apple" licensed from the British record company of
the same name (Apple the computer company could use the name as long as
they didn't get into the music business. . .which made things get
interesting when people started doing MIDI stuff with Macs . . .)
> There
were all kinds of small Apple cloners around, with various Apple
> variety and fruit names ("Granny Smith", "McIntosh",
"Pear", etc.). The
Any lawsuits there with that second item?
9501
days inactive
9508
days old
4 comments
4 participants
participants (4)
-
ds_spenc＠alcor.concordia.ca -
gram＠cnct.com -
maxeskin＠hotmail.com -
transit＠primenet.com