Microsoft-Paul Allen

[William Sudbrink]

Wait!  It gets stranger.  I just squinted hard at that Byte Mag ad.

"Kentucky Fried Computers" is offering a "North Star Computers-FP8 &
disk"???

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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of William
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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

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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
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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:
> Fred,
> Have you ever seen any actual "Kentucky Fried Computers" anything?
> Ads?  Marketing lit? Hardware? Letterhead?  Incorporation application?
> I've looked in the past and have never turned up anything.

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?,  . . .


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