9 Jan
2007
9 Jan
'07
8:37 p.m.
George Currie wrote:
I wonder if Apple (the former computer company) paved
the way for the
name change in the last round of negotiations it had with Apple (the
record label) as one of Apple's major arguments (hey, we're a computer
company, no one would get confused) is now officially gone.
Especially interesting given the scorn that the DEC-VAX agreement from
the '70s had.
The "why" question still remains on a technical level, given that all
of their "consumer" products still are data processing equipment,
predominantly based around microprocessors. They may not be intended to
be general purpose computing machines, but then again neither was the
PlayStation 2 et al, and look what's been done with them.
9 Jan
9 Jan
8:45 p.m.
way off topic kind of, but there was an article in
some Mac magazine way back, I want to say written by
John Dvorak, but I'm not sure if he was writing for
them yet (he did write for a Mac magazine, didn't
he?), which stated there was talk on the table of
changing the company's name to PowerMac corporation,
and that anyone made mention of the company's former
name would be jettisoned. Would make you think twice
about offering someone the fruity portion of your
lunch.
If anyone reasonably near New Jersey, poor soul,
happens to have one of the Motorola PPC clones, I
might be interested.
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9:16 p.m.
In article <2c9905e7a0917a23c18369f94e997689 at valleyimplants.com>,
Scott Quinn <compoobah at valleyimplants.com> writes:
George Currie wrote:
Come again? That reads like a total non sequitur to me.
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I wonder if Apple (the former computer company)
paved the way for the
name change in the last round of negotiations it had with Apple (the
record label) as one of Apple's major arguments (hey, we're a computer
company, no one would get confused) is now officially gone.
Especially interesting given the scorn that the DEC-VAX agreement from
the '70s had. 
10:19 p.m.
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 21:16, Richard wrote:
In article <2c9905e7a0917a23c18369f94e997689 at
valleyimplants.com>,
He's probably referring to the agreement that DEC had with the company
that makes VAX vacuum cleaners, for both of them to be able to use
the "VAX" name for their respective products, in each other's country.
Pat
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Especially interesting given the scorn that the
DEC-VAX agreement
from the '70s had.
Come again? That reads like a total non sequitur to me.
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